Stoic doctrine of living according to nature

1. Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 extended 1 citation · 2 passages

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   Stoic doctrine is explicitly identified and shown to be elaborated upon by Roman legal thought.

   After Nature had become a household word in the mouths of the Romans, the belief gradually prevailed among the Roman lawyers that the old Jus Gentium was in fact the lost code of Nature, and that the Prætor in framing an Edictal jurisprudence on the principles of the Jus Gentium was gradually restoring a type from which law had only departed to deteriorate.

2. On the Happy Life Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 authority 1 citation

   on the happy life

   Seneca explicitly cites the shared agreement of the Stoics as the doctrinal basis for his argument.

   Meanwhile, in accordance with what all the Stoics agree upon, I give my assent to the nature of things;

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