Seneca | On Allegiance to Virtue

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Welcome to Sundays with Seneca on the Perennial Meditations podcast. Join the search for ancient lessons for modern living in the writing and Stoic philosophy of Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

In a letter known today as On Allegiance to Virtue, Seneca wrote, "You have promised to be a good man; you have enlisted under oath; that is the strongest chain that will hold you to a sound understanding. Any man will be but mocking you if he declares that this is an easy kind of soldiering. I will not have you deceived. The word of this most honorable are the same as the words of that most disgraceful one, to wit: “Through burning, imprisonment, or death by the sword.” [...]

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