About good deeds

Lucius Anney Seneca (4 BC-65)-an outstanding Roman philosopher-Stoik, a famous politician, teacher of the infamous emperor Nero. Seneca at his own fate experienced all the burden of power and gratitude for this: during the youth of Nero Seneca, he was the actual ruler of Rome and, on the orders of the same emperor, was forced to commit suicide.
The philosophical dialogues and thoughts of Seneca had a huge impact on all Christian thinkers of subsequent times. His essay "On the Blessings", according to the fair remark of the French enlightener Denis Didro, is the most beautiful work compiled for the benefits of more than one Nero, but also all people. Analyzing with deep knowledge of the human heart and its secrets a variety of manifestations of spiritual life, with deep insight, revealing and noticing various deviations in the relations of people, Seneca better and more circumstances of all ancient thinkers studied such an important area of ​​manifestations of moral feeling as charity, which, in his conviction, is, which, in his conviction. "serves as the most important link for human society."