The aqueducts bring it from beyond the Alban hills, and any one wishing to poison it would have to poison every fountain in Rome.

As thou seest, it is possible yet to be safe in this world and to have a quiet old age.

I am sick, it is true, but rather in soul than in body." This was true.

Seneca lacked the strength of soul which Cornutus possessed, for example, or Thrasea; hence his life was a series of concessions to crime.

He felt this himself; he understood that an adherent of the principles of Zeno, of Citium, should go by another road, and he suffered more from that cause than from the fear of death itself.
But the general interrupted these reflections full of grief.
"Noble Annaeus," said he, "I know how Caesar rewarded thee for the care with which thou didst surround his years of youth.