"Godliness with contentment is great gain." (1 Tim. vi. 6.)
Seneca (Letter 110): "Why are you struck with wonder and astonishment? It is all display! Those things are shown, not possessed.... Turn thyself rather to the true riches, learn to be content with little."
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." (Matt. xix. 24.)
Seneca (Letter 20): "He is a high-souled man who sees riches spread around him, and hears rather than feels that they are his. It is much not to be corrupted by fellowship with riches: great is he who in the midst of wealth is poor, but safer he who has no wealth at all."
9. The Duty of Kindness.
"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love." (Rom. xii. 10.)
Seneca (On Anger, i. 5): "Man is born for mutual assistance."
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." (Lev. xiv. 18.)
Letter 48: "You must live for another, if you wish to live for yourself."
On Anger, iii. 43: "While we are among men let us cultivate kindness; let us not be to any man a cause either of peril or of fear."