Seneca's MoralsGrigg & Elliot, 1834 - 359 ページ |
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ambition anger angry Apicius Archelaus Aristotle avarice banishment beasts benefit better betwixt blessings body bounty Cæsar Caligula Cambyses CHAP Cinna clemency comes common condemned conscience contempt counsel covetous cruelty death delight desire discourse divine duty enemy Epicurus EPISTLE evil fall fate father fear felicity fortune give greater hand happy hard matter heaven honest honor hopes and fears human injury Julius Cæsar Jupiter keep kind Lactantius liberty live look lusts luxury Lysimachus Macedon madness man's mankind manners matter mind mischief miserable mortal nature Nero never obligation ourselves pain pass passion philosophy Plato pleasure Pompey poverty precepts prince profitable Providence punishment quiet reason receive requite revenge Seneca servant sick Socrates soul Stilpo Stoics suffer Tacitus thing thirty tyrants thoughts tion torments trouble truth ungrateful vices virtue whereas whole wicked wickedness wisdom wise words
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61 ページ - It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
67 ページ - It is safer to affront some people than to oblige them : for the better a man deserves the worse they will speak of him ; as if the possessing of open hatred to their benefactors were an argument that they lie under no obligation.
83 ページ - Wisdom is a Right Understanding; a Faculty of Discerning Good from Evil; What is to be chosen, and what rejected; a Judgment grounded upon the Value of things, and not the Common Opinion of them; an equality of Force, and a Strength of Resolution. It sets a Watch over our Words and Deeds, it takes us up with the Contemplation of the Works of Nature ; and makes us invincible, by either Good, or Evil Fortune. It is large and spacious; and requires a great deal of Room to work in; it ransacks...
86 ページ - VIRTUE is that perfect good, which is the complement 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.
182 ページ - Life is a small matter ; but it is a matter of importance to contemn it. Nature that begat us expels us, and a better and a safer place is provided for us. And what is death, but a ceasing to be what we were before ? We are kindled, and put out : to cease to be and not to begin to be is the same thing. We die daily; and while we are growing, our life decreases: every moment that passes takes away part of it : all that is past is lost : nay, we divide with death the very instant that we live. As the...
108 ページ - ... the stroke of it. It were ill for good men that iniquity may so easily evade the law, the judge, and the execution, if nature had not set up torments and gibbets in the consciences of transgressors. He that is guilty lives in perpetual terror, and while he expects to be punished he punishes himself, and whosoever deserves it expects it. What if he be not detected ? He is still in apprehension yet that he may be so. His sleeps are painful and never secure, and he cannot speak of another man's...
133 ページ - 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.
90 ページ - I will govern my life and my thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and to read the other ; for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbour, when to God (who is the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open ? VIRTUE IS DIVIDED INTO CONTEMPLATION AND ACTION.
96 ページ - Not but that philosophy is also the gift of heaven, so far as to the faculty, but not to the science, for that must be the business of industry. No man is born wise, but wisdom and virtue require a tutor, though we can. easily learn to be vicious without a master.
30 ページ - There is not any benefit so glorious in itself, but it may yet be exceedingly sweetened, and improved by the manner of conferring it. The virtue, I know, rests in the intent; the profit in the judicious application of the matter; but, the beauty and ornament of an obligation, lies in the manner of it. — Seneca. ccxcvm. The modern device of consulting indexes, is to read i -,ook» hebraically, and begin where others usually end.