1. Cicero, On Duties, 1.69-1.70 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 267, 268| 1.69. Vacandum autem omni est animi perturbatione, cum cupiditate et metu, tum etiam aegritudine et voluptate nimia et iracundia, ut tranquillitas animi et securitas adsit, quae affert cum constantiam, tum etiam dignitatem. Multi autem et sunt et fuerunt, qui eam, quam dico, tranquillitatem expetentes a negotiis publicis se removerint ad otiumque perfugerint; in his et nobilissimi philosophi longeque principes et quidam homines severi et graves nec populi nec principum mores ferre potuerunt, vixeruntque non nulli in agris delectati re sua familiari. 1.70. His idem propositum fuit, quod regibus, ut ne qua re egerent, ne cui parerent, libertate uterentur, cuius proprium est sic vivere, ut velis. Quare cum hoc commune sit potentiae cupidorum cum iis, quos dixi, otiosis, alteri se adipisci id posse arbitrantur, si opes magnas habeant, alteri, si contenti sint et suo et parvo. In quo neutrorum omnino contemnenda sententia est, sed et facilior et tutior et minus aliis gravis aut molesta vita est otiosorum, fructuosior autem hominum generi et ad claritatem amplitudinemque aptior eorum, qui se ad rem publicam et ad magnas res gerendas accommodaverunt. | 1.69. Again, we must keep ourselves free from every disturbing emotion, not only from desire and fear, but also from excessive pain and pleasure, and from anger, so that we may enjoy that calm of soul and freedom from care which bring both moral stability and dignity of character. But there have been many and still are many who, while pursuing that calm of soul of which I speak, have withdrawn from civic duty and taken refuge in retirement. Among such have been found the most famous and by far the foremost philosophers and certain other earnest, thoughtful men who could not endure the conduct of either the people or their leaders; some of them, too, lived in the country and found their pleasure in the management of their private estates. 1.70. Such men have had the same aims as kings â to suffer no want, to be subject to no authority, to enjoy their liberty, that is, in its essence, to live just as they please. So, while this desire is common to men of political ambitions and men of retirement, of whom I have just spoken, the one class think they can attain their end if they secure large means; the other, if they are content with the little they have. And, in this matter, neither way of thinking is altogether to be condemned; but the life of retirement is easier and safer and at the same time less burdensome or troublesome to others, while the career of those who apply themselves to statecraft and to conducting great enterprises is more profitable to mankind and contributes more to their own greatness and renown. |
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| 2. Seneca The Younger, De Beneficiis, 7.6.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 268 |
| 3. Seneca The Younger, De Brevitate Vitae (Dialogorum Liber X ), 2.1, 2.3-2.4, 4.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 275, 276, 277, 278 |
| 4. Seneca The Younger, De Constantia Sapientis, 8.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 282, 283 |
| 5. Seneca The Younger, De Providentia (Dialogorum Liber I), 6.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 281, 282 |
| 6. Seneca The Younger, On Leisure, 14.3, 14.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 270 |
| 7. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 1.1, 6.7, 9.8-9.9, 9.18-9.19, 14.4-14.10, 20.1, 31.9, 37.4, 48.11, 53.11, 62.1, 73.12-73.14, 75.18, 92.29, 108.13, 113.31, 114.23-114.24 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282 |
| 8. Seneca The Younger, Thyestes, 390 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 269 |
9. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 7.122 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •autarkeia, and the senecan sapiens Found in books: Bexley (2022), Seneca's Characters: Fictional Identities and Implied Human Selves, 267 | 7.122. though indeed there is also a second form of slavery consisting in subordination, and a third which implies possession of the slave as well as his subordination; the correlative of such servitude being lordship; and this too is evil. Moreover, according to them not only are the wise free, they are also kings; kingship being irresponsible rule, which none but the wise can maintain: so Chrysippus in his treatise vindicating Zeno's use of terminology. For he holds that knowledge of good and evil is a necessary attribute of the ruler, and that no bad man is acquainted with this science. Similarly the wise and good alone are fit to be magistrates, judges, or orators, whereas among the bad there is not one so qualified. |
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