IV. Among the Latins Cicero and Seneca vote for soul-immortality; Tertullian on what nature knows
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IV.Among the Latins Cicero and Seneca stand for all, who vote for the immortality of the soul.Cicero in On Friendship under the person of Laelius does not assent to those who have begun to argue that souls perish together with bodies, and that all things are destroyed by death.And in Tusculan Disputations book 1 he brings reasons into the middle, as also in On Old Age.But Seneca so often inculcates the immortality of the soul that he seems to have been wholly in it.See Consolation to Marcia chapter 24; to Helvia his mother chapter 11; letters 85 and 102.From which testimonies it is gathered how wisely and rightly Tertullian pronounced in On the Resurrection chapter 3: certain things are known from nature, as the immortality of the soul among many, as our God among all.
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IV. In Latinis instar omnium sunt Cicero & Seneca, qui immortalitati animae suffragantur. Cicero lib. de amicitia sub persona Laelii non assentitur iis, qui disserere coeperunt, cum corporibus simul animas interire, atque omnia morte deleri. Et 1. Tusc. rationes in medium adducit, ut & libro de senectute. Seneca vero animae immortalitatem toties inculcat, ut in eo totus fuisse videatur. Vide consolatione ad Martiam cap. 24. ad Helviam matrem cap. 11. epist. 85. 102. E quibus testimoniis colligitur, quam sapienter & recte pronunciaverit Tertullianus libro de resurrectione cap. 3. quaedam e natura nota sunt, ut immortalitas animae penes plures, ut Deus noster penes omnes.