Seneca's Morals: By Way of Abstract. To which is Added, a Discourse, Under the Title of An AfterthoughtGrigg & Elliot, 1834 - 359 trang |
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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 heaven honest honor hopes and fears human ingratitude injury Julius Cæsar Jupiter keep kind Lactantius liberty live look lusts luxury Lysimachus Macedon madness man's mankind matter mind mischief miserable 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 slavery Socrates soul Stilpo Stoics suffer sword Tacitus temperate thing thirty tyrants thoughts tion torments trouble truth ungrateful vices virtue whereas whole wicked wickedness wisdom wise words
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Trang 67 - 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.
Trang 81 - Tranquillity is a certain equality of mind, which no condition of fortune can either exalt or depress. Nothing can make it less; for it is the state of human perfection; it raises us as high as we can go; and makes every man his own supporter; whereas he that is borne up by anything else may fall. He that judges aright, and perseveres in it, enjoys a perpetual calm; he takes a true prospect of things; he observes an order, measure, a decorum in all his actions; he has a benevolence in his nature;...
Trang 80 - And the mischief is, that the number of the multitude carries it against truth and justice, so that we must leave the crowd if we would be happy; for the question of a happy life is not to be decided by vote: nay, so far from it that plurality of voices is still an argument of the wrong; the common people find it easier to believe than to judge; and content themselves with what is usual; never examining whether it be good or no. By the common people is intended the man of title, as well as the clouted...
Trang 61 - 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.
Trang 81 - 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.
Trang 162 - 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.
Trang 30 - The rule is, we are to give as we would receive — cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation, for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Trang 82 - 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.
Trang 80 - It fares with us in human life, as in a routed army, one stumbles first, and then another falls upon him, and so they follow, one upon the neck of another, till the whole field comes to be one heap of miscarriages. And the mischief is, that the number of the multitude carries it against truth and justice...
Trang 158 - Nay, we are all of a consanguinity ; formed of the same materials, and designed to the same end ; this obliges us to a mutual tenderness and converse ; and the other, to live with a regard to equity and justice. The love of society is natural ; but the choice of our company is matter of virtue and prudence. Noble examples stir us up to noble actions ; and the very history of large and public souls, inspires a man with generous thoughts. It makes a man long to be in action, and doing something that...