Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and ClemancyBelford, Clarke & Company, 1882 - 395 pages |
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Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency Lucius Annaeus Seneca Affichage d'extraits - 1900 |
Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemancy Lucius Annaeus Seneca Aucun aperçu disponible - 2013 |
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anger angry Apicius Augustus avarice banished beasts benefit better betwixt blessing blood body bounty Cæsar Caligula Cambyses CHAPTER Cinna clemency comes common condemned conscience contempt counsel covetous cruelty cure death delight desire discourse disease duty enemy envy Epicurus evil fall father fear felicity fortune gibbets give greater hand happy hard matter heart heaven honest honor hopes and fears human hurt ingratitude injury Julius Cæsar kind Lactantius liberty live look lusts luxury Lysimachus madness man's mankind matter mercy mind mischief miserable nature Nero never obligation ourselves pain pass passion philosophy Plato pleasure Pompey poverty prince Providence punishment reason receive requite revenge rich Seneca servant shame sick Socrates soldier stand Stilpo Stoics suffer sword Tacitus temned temperate things thirty tyrants tion torments ungrateful vice virtue whereas whole wicked wickedness wisdom wise wish
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Page 28 - He that does good to another man does good also to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for the conscience of well-doing is an ample reward.
Page 126 - The true felicity of life is to be free from perturbations, to understand our duties towards God and man: to enjoy the present without any anxious dependence upon the future. Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.
Page 135 - Virtue is that perfect good, which is the compliment of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality: it is the knowledge both of others and itself; it is an invincible greatness of mind, not to be elevated or dejected with good or ill fortune. It is sociable and gentle, free, steady, and fearless; content within itself; full of inexhaustible delights; and it is valued for itself.
Page 158 - He that places a man in the possession of himself does a great thing; for wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life; in a firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite: it teaches us to do as well as to talk: and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Page 116 - Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical. There are too many even of this sort, who, the more they owe, the more they hate. There is nothing more dangerous than to oblige those people; for when they are conscious of not paying the debt, they wish the creditor out of the way.
Page 249 - Of all felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the bare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason, a man would not be without it.
Page 291 - The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
Page 168 - Our vices will abate of themselves, if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Page 128 - True joy is a serene and sober motion ; and they are miserably out that take laughing for rejoicing ; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolution of a brave mind, that has fortune under its feet.
Page 205 - Nay, we are so delicate that we must be told when we are to eat or drink, when we are hungry or weary ; and we cherish some vices as proofs and arguments of our happiness. The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates or to their lusts ; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance. It is a brutal entertainment, and unworthy of a man, to place his felicity in the service of his senses.