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Seneca The Younger, Letters, 23.6


nanTherefore I pray you, my dearest Lucilius, do the one thing that can render you really happy: cast aside and trample under foot all those things that glitter outwardly and are held out to you[2] by another or as obtainable from another; look toward the true good, and rejoice only in that which comes from your own store. And what do I mean by "from your own store"? I mean from your very self, that which is the best part of you. The frail body, also, even though we can accomplish nothing without it, is to be regarded as necessary rather than as important; it involves us in vain pleasures, short-lived, and soon to be regretted, which, unless they are reined in by extreme self-control, will be transformed into the opposite. This is what I mean: pleasure, unless it has been kept within bounds, tends to rush headlong into the abyss of sorrow. But it is hard to keep within bounds in that which you believe to be good. The real good may be coveted with safety.


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

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1. New Testament, 1 Peter, 1.6-1.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)

1.6. Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials 1.7. that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ -- 1.8. whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory --
2. Seneca The Younger, Letters, 6.1-6.3, 7.3, 23.4-23.5, 53.2-53.6, 54.4-54.5, 59.4, 72.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)



Subjects of this text:

subject book bibliographic info
action-tendency,of distress Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
action-tendency,of joy Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
appraisal,of distress Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
appraisal,of joy Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108, 128
appraisal,propositional content of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
behaviour Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
caution (eulabeia) Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
death Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
delight Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
desire,as genus emotion Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
distress,characteristics of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
distress,in greco-roman sources Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
distress,no analogue in the wise Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
distress Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53; Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
emotions,classified by genus Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
ethics,of stoicism Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
eupatheiai,classified by genus Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
eupatheiai,missing genus Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
eupatheiai Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
fear Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
foucault,michel Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
fourfold classification Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
genus-level classification Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
god,value of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
goodness,good life Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
goods,benefit Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108, 128
harm Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
heidegger,m. Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
honourableness Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
joy,characteristics of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
joy,enduring Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
joy,in greco-roman sources Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
joy,object of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108, 128
joy Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53; Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108, 128
nature,of human beings Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
normative self or identity Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
opinion Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
other,the,detachment from Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
perfection Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
pleasure Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
progress,moral Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
reason Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
self,conceptions of Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
self-knowledge Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
seneca,on joy Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
seneca Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
sociological implication,of emotional directives Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
soul,movement of Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 108
suffering,of the believer Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
symbolic universe,see worldview,of emotional directives Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
telos,temporality' Long (2006), From Epicurus to Epictetus Studies in Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy, 373
value system Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
virtue Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128
wise person,affective responses of Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
wish (boulesis) Graver (2007), Stoicism and Emotion, 53
worldview Hockey (2019), The Role of Emotion in 1 Peter, 128