The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers

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SECTION B. STOIC SCIENCE AND
SPECULATION
CHAPTER III
CONCEPTION OF PHILOSOPHY
every impression apply, if possible, the tests of objective
character, of subjective effect, and of logical relation
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who neglects education walks lame to the end of his life,
and returns imperfect and good for nothing to the world below."
PLATO.
Philosophise servias oportet, ut tibi contingat
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vera libertas."
SENECA.
WHEN Philosophy, in the early part of the sixth century
of the Christian era, disclosed herself in vision to
Boethius, as he lay in the prison of Ticinum waiting
his tragic end, she appeared as a Woman of a very
reverent countenance, with glowing eyes, penetrating
with a power beyond that of human eyes,
of vivid
so full
complexion and inexhaustible strength, although
of years that she could not be deemed to belong to the
present age. Her stature was difficult to define. For,
at one time, she would confine herself within the
common human measure ;
at another time, she seemed
to raise her head so high as to penetrate the heavens,
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