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Seneca The Younger, Letters, 13.12


nanThe mind at times fashions for itself false shapes of evil when there are no signs that point to any evil; it twists into the worst construction some word of doubtful meaning; or it fancies some personal grudge to be more serious than it really is, considering not how angry the enemy is, but to what lengths he may go if he is angry. But life is not worth living, and there is no limit to our sorrows, if we indulge our fears to the greatest possible extent; in this matter, let prudence help you, and contemn with a resolute spirit even when it is in plain sight. If you cannot do this, counter one weakness with another, and temper your fear with hope. There is nothing so certain among these objects of fear that it is not more certain still that things we dread sink into nothing and that things we hope for mock us.


Intertexts (texts cited often on the same page as the searched text):

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1. Aristotle, Rhetoric, 2.5 (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)

2. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 3.25 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)

3.25. —ergo haec duo genera, voluptas gestiens et libido, bonorum opinione turbantur, ut ut in at corr. V 2 duo reliqua, metus et et om. H s aegritudo, malorum. nam et metus est post metus add. V c s non male. opinio magni mali inpendentis inpendentes G 1 R 1 V 1 ( corr. G 2 R 1 V 1 ) et aegritudo est opinio magni mali praesentis, et quidem recens opinio talis mali, ut in eo rectum recte H videatur esse angi, id autem est, ut ut om. G 1 dolore V is qui doleat oportere opinetur se dolere. his autem perturbationibus, quas in quas in quasi in GKH quas in R vitam vitam Lb. vita ( cf. off. 3,34 ) homini H hominum stultitia quasi quasdam Furias inmittit atque incitat,, 3 omne ... 330, 4 incitat H omnibus viribus atque opibus repugdum est, si volumus hoc, quod datum est vitae, tranquille placideque traducere. Sed cetera alias; nunc aegritudinem, si possumus, depellamus. id enim sit sit (si V 1 )] est Bouh. sed cf. fin. 4,25 propositum, quandoquidem eam tu videri tibi in sapientem cadere dixisti, quod ego nullo modo existimo; taetra enim res est, misera, detestabilis, omni omne GRV ( corr. R 1 V 1 ) contentione, velis, ut ita dicam, remisque fugienda.
3. Epictetus, Discourses, 2.2.1-2.2.4, 2.2.25-2.2.26, 4.1.60, 4.1.82-4.1.83, 4.1.86-4.1.90, 4.7.1-4.7.5, 4.7.8-4.7.10 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

4. Seneca The Younger, On Anger, 2.4.1-2.4.2 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

5. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 5.7-5.9, 13.4, 23.2, 101.10 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

6. Seneca The Younger, Troades, 399 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

7. Statius, Thebais, 1.382 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

8. Valerius Flaccus Gaius, Argonautica, 1.211-1.228, 1.234-1.238, 1.506-1.508, 1.545-1.546

9. Vergil, Aeneis, 1.257, 1.279-1.283

1.257. in panic through the leafy wood, nor ceased 1.279. Such was his word, but vexed with grief and care 1.280. feigned hopes upon his forehead firm he wore 1.281. and locked within his heart a hero's pain. 1.282. Now round the welcome trophies of his chase 1.283. they gather for a feast. Some flay the ribs


Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
action-tendency,of fear Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
aeetes Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
apatheia Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
appraisal,of fear Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
argonauts Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100, 102
belief/s,nature of Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
belief/s,role in emotion Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20, 100
carthage Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
cicero,and seneca Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
cicero,emotions Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
cicero,fear Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
cicero,stoicism and virility Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
emotions,as deceptive Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20, 102
emotions,formation of human Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
emotions,nature of Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
emotions,stoic views Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
euripides,medea Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 102
fear,and goods Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
fear,and hope ( spes ) Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20, 66, 100, 102
fear,as deceptive emotion Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
fear,as mental construct Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
fear,as weakness of mind' Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 66
fear,contextualisation of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
fear,in greco-roman sources Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
fear,object of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
fear Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
goods,benefit Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
jason Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 102
juno,aen. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
jupiter,aen. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
jupiter,arg. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100, 102
object,typical Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
panaetius Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 20
power Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
self,positioning of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182
sol Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
stoicism,fate Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
venus,aen. Agri (2022), Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism, 100
virtue Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 182