By Seneca, Richard M. Gummere
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. four BCE, of a popular and filthy rich relatives, spent an ill early life and formative years at Rome in an aunt's care. He grew to become well-known in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial provider. After a few shame in the course of Claudius' reign he grew to become teach after which, in fifty four CE, advising minister to Nero, a few of whose worst misdeeds he didn't hinder. concerned (innocently?) in a conspiracy, he killed himself by means of order in sixty five. prosperous, he preached indifference to wealth; evader of discomfort and loss of life, he preached scorn of either; and there have been different contrasts among perform and precept. we've got Seneca's philosophical or ethical essays (ten of them usually known as Dialogues)—on windfall, steadfastness, the satisfied existence, anger, relaxation, tranquility, the brevity of lifestyles, gift-giving, forgiveness—and treatises on ordinary phenomena. additionally extant are 124 epistles, during which he writes in a peaceful variety approximately ethical and moral questions, bearing on them to non-public stories; a skit at the legitimate deification of Claudius, Apocolocyntosis (in Loeb quantity 15); and 9 rhetorical tragedies on historic Greek subject matters. Many epistles and all his speeches are misplaced. The 124 epistles are gathered in Volumes IV–VI of the Loeb Classical Library's ten-volume variation of Seneca.
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The soul is composed and calm what increase can there be to this tranquillity ? Just as fair weather, purified into the purest brilliancy, does not admit of a still greater degree of clearness ; when man takes care of his body and of his soul, wea^^ng the texture of his good from both, his condition is perfect, and he has found the consummation of his prayers, if thei'e is no commotion in his soul or pain in his body. Whatever delights fall to his lot over and above these two things do not increase his Supreme Good they merely season it, so to speak, and add spice to it.
In integrum restituit quidquid erraverat confecit bellum inermis ac mancus et ilia manu trunca reges duos vicit. Vale. ; LXVII. Seneca Lvcilio svo salvtem 1 Vt a communibus initium faciam^ ver aperire se iam inclinatum in aestatem, quo tempore calere debebat, intepuit nee adhuc illi fides est. Saepe enim in hiemem revolvitur. Vis scire, quam dubium adhuc sit ? Nondum me committo frigidae " Hoc est/' verae, adhuc rigorem eius infringo. " Vix Lucili iam aetas mea contenta est sue frigore. coepit, sed ; " A rare word — sometimes spelled malacisso, — used by Plautus (Bacch.
42 EPISTLE LXVII. desirable which come to us amid pleasure and ease, and which we bedeck our doors to welcome " ? There are certain goods whose features are forbidding. There are certain prayers which are offered by a throng, not of men who rejoice, but of men who bow down reverently and worship. Was it not in this fashion, think you, that Regulus prayed that he might reach Carthage } Clothe yourself with a hero's courage, and withdraw for a little space from the opinions of the common man. Form a proper conception of the image of virtue, a thing of exceeding beauty and grandeur this image is not to be worshipped by us with incense or garlands, but with sweat and blood.