[57] Omnia habentem. Ep. xcv.
[58] Parens noster. Ep. cx.
[59] Placeat homini quidquid Deo placuit. Ep. lxxv.
"Life," said Seneca, "is a tribulation, death a release. In order not to fear death," he added, "think of it always. The day on which it comes judges all others."[60] Meanwhile comfort those that sorrow.[61] Share your bread with them that hunger.[62] Wherever there is a human being there is place for a good deed.[63] Sin is an ulcer. Deliverance from it is the beginning of health—salvation, salutem."[64]
[60] Ep. xxvi. 4.
[61] De Clem. ii. 6.
[62] Ep. xcv. 51.
[63] De Vita Beata, 14.
[64] Ep. xxviii. 9.
Words such as these suggest others. They are anterior to those which they recall. The latter are more beautiful, they are more ample, there is in them a poetry and a profundity that has rarely been excelled. Yet, it may be, that a germ of them is in Seneca, or, more exactly, in theories which, beginning in India, prophets, seers, and stoics variously interpreted and recalled.