On the intimations of our immortality
102:19
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
19.
This good is also the good of those who render the praise, for it is applied by means of virtue; and every act of virtue is a good.
My friends could not have found this blessing if I had not been a man of the right stamp.
It is therefore a good belonging to both sides—this being praised when one deserves it—just as truly as a good decision is the good of him who makes the decision and also of him in whose favour the decision was given.
Do you doubt that justice is a blessing to its possessor, as well as to the man to whom the just due was paid?
To praise the deserving is justice; therefore, the good belongs to both sides.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the intimations of our immortality
Location: Chapter 102, Section 19
Content:
19.
This good is also the good of those who render the praise, for it is applied by means of virtue; and every act of virtue is a good.
My friends could not have found this blessing if I had not been a man of the right stamp.
It is therefore a good belonging to both sides—this being praised when one deserves it—just as truly as a good decision is the good of him who makes the decision and also of him in whose favour the decision was given.
Do you doubt that justice is a blessing to its possessor, as well as to the man to whom the just due was paid?
To praise the deserving is justice; therefore, the good belongs to both sides.