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Selections from the Writings of Seneca something from the most inexhaustable of all foun tains. Add, now, that external circumstances do not coerce the gods, but their sempiternal will is their law. They have established an order of events which they do not change. The gods never repent of their first purpose. Beneficence consists not in what is done or given, but in the spirit of the doer or giver. It is a most glorious work to save even the unwill ing and refractory. The door to virtue is closed to no one; it is open to all, admits all; virtue invites everybody, free-born, freedmen, slaves, kings and exiles. class nor condition, it seeks the man only. It selects neither Nature directs us to do good to all men whether bond or free, free-born or emancipated slaves. Wher ever there is a human being, there is a place for beneficence. He who reasons thus (like Epicurus), does not hear the voices of supplicants and the prayers offered everywhere, in public and private, with hands out stretched toward heaven. This could not be, nor is it possible that all men should have willingly consented to the folly of addressing deaf divinities and power less gods, if they had not recognized their benefac tions, sometimes given spontaneously, sometimes in answer to prayer, always great, timely, averting by their intervention impending disasters. 74
Selections from the Writings of Seneca FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. It is easy to form the mind while it is still tender; but it is difficult to root out those vices that have grown up with it. It is a great thing to know when to speak and when to be silent. The vices of others we have before our eyes; our own, behind our backs. Use your ears oftener than your tongue. Nothing is more out of place flicting punishment than anger. in him who is in It is not the issue of a thing that ought taken into account, but the purpose. to be Every crime is committed before the deed is done. To cupidity nothing is enough; to nature even a little is enough. Vice takes possession of us unconsciously; virtue is difficult to find, and we need a guide and teacher. Vices are learned without a teacher. Stars shall impinge upon stars and all matter that now delights us with its beautiful order shall burn in one huge conflagration. All that is best can neither be given to men nor taken from them. There are two things, the most precious of all, that attend us whithersoever we turn our steps: com mon nature and personal virtue. These things are 75
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SENECA: HIS CHARACTER AND ENVIRONME
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