Sublime

Do you ask what is the proper limit to wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary, and, second, to have what is enough.

Le sage, quand il pourrait cheminer à pied, aimera cependant mieux monter sur un char ; de même, s'il peut être riche, il acceptera la richesse ; il l'aura, sans doute, mais comme chose fugitive et qui doit s'envoler ; il ne souffrira qu'elle pèse ni à personne, ni à lui-même.

he defends the man against the usual accusations of hypocrisy (“Defense of Seneca and Plutarch”) and engages deeply both with Seneca’s notion of constancy (which he reinterprets as primarily a military virtue, not one to be adopted by a private citizen) 18 and most importantly with his ideal of clemency, from Seneca’s Letters and especially from De

Seneca shook the dust of Spain off his sandals fairly fast, and as we will see, he was accused of financial abuse in his economic relationship with the province of Britain, lending the natives money and calling back the loans suddenly, at a huge rate of interest. If Seneca was sympathetic to the provinces, he did not let such feelings get in the wa

“But the wise person can lose nothing. Such a person has everything stored up for themselves, leaving nothing to Fortune, their own goods are held firm, bound in virtue, which requires nothing from chance, and therefore can’t be either increased or diminished.” —SENECA, ON THE FIRMNESS OF THE WISE, 5.4

calma e a tranquilidade; se liberta da ansiedade como estilo de vida.

Seneca defines anger, following an older philosophical tradition, as “the desire to avenge an injury,” including injuries which the person believes has been, or will be, imposed: “anger is aroused by the direct impression of an injury”

Maecenas—for he spoke truth even on the rack.* Lightens the peak itself on high. If you ask which of his books contains this saying, it is written in the one entitled Prometheus. What he’s trying to say is this: it is the high places that get struck by lightning. Tell me: would it be worth it to you to speak in such a garbled way, for any amount of