Letters 95.11

To thee shall I reveal the ways of heaven And the gods, spreading before thine eyes The atoms,—whence all things are brought to birth, Increased, and fostered by creative power, And eke their end when Nature casts them off.

Philosophy, therefore, being theoretic, must have her doctrines.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 95.11, translated by Richard Mott Gummere