1. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 3.847-3.869, 6.1-6.7, 6.24-6.26 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) Tagged with subjects: •fear, freedom from Found in books: Long (2006) 185, 202| 3.847. nec, si materiem nostram collegerit aetas 3.848. post obitum rursumque redegerit ut sita nunc est, 3.849. atque iterum nobis fuerint data lumina vitae, 3.850. pertineat quicquam tamen ad nos id quoque factum, 3.851. interrupta semel cum sit repetentia nostri. 3.852. et nunc nil ad nos de nobis attinet, ante 3.853. qui fuimus, neque iam de illis nos adficit angor. 3.854. nam cum respicias inmensi temporis omne 3.855. praeteritum spatium, tum motus materiai 3.856. multimodi quam sint, facile hoc adcredere possis, 3.857. semina saepe in eodem, ut nunc sunt, ordine posta 3.858. haec eadem, quibus e nunc nos sumus, ante fuisse. 3.859. nec memori tamen id quimus reprehendere mente; 3.860. inter enim iectast vitai pausa vageque 3.861. deerrarunt passim motus ab sensibus omnes. 3.862. debet enim, misere si forte aegreque futurumst; 3.863. ipse quoque esse in eo tum tempore, cui male possit 3.864. accidere. id quoniam mors eximit, esseque prohibet 3.865. illum cui possint incommoda conciliari, 3.866. scire licet nobis nihil esse in morte timendum 3.867. nec miserum fieri qui non est posse, neque hilum 3.868. differre an nullo fuerit iam tempore natus, 3.869. mortalem vitam mors cum inmortalis ademit. 6.1. Primae frugiparos fetus mortalibus aegris 6.2. dididerunt quondam praeclaro nomine Athenae 6.3. et recreaverunt vitam legesque rogarunt 6.4. et primae dederunt solacia dulcia vitae, 6.5. cum genuere virum tali cum corde repertum, 6.6. omnia veridico qui quondam ex ore profudit; 6.7. cuius et extincti propter divina reperta 6.24. veridicis igitur purgavit pectora dictis 6.25. et finem statuit cuppedinis atque timoris 6.26. exposuitque bonum summum, quo tendimus omnes, | |
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2. Diogenes Laertius, Lives of The Philosophers, 4.17, 7.121 (3rd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •fear, freedom from Found in books: Long (2006) 12, 181 | 4.17. Antigonus of Carystus in his Biographies says that his father was foremost among the citizens and kept horses to compete in the chariot-race; that Polemo himself had been defendant in an action brought by his wife, who charged him with cruelty owing to the irregularities of his life; but that, from the time when he began to study philosophy, he acquired such strength of character as always to maintain the same unruffled calm of demeanour. Nay more, he never lost control of his voice. This in fact accounts for the fascination which he exercised over Crantor. Certain it is that, when a mad dog bit him in the back of his thigh, he did not even turn pale, but remained undisturbed by all the clamour which arose in the city at the news of what had happened. In the theatre too he was singularly unmoved. 7.121. But Heraclides of Tarsus, who was the disciple of Antipater of Tarsus, and Athenodorus both assert that sins are not equal.Again, the Stoics say that the wise man will take part in politics, if nothing hinders him – so, for instance, Chrysippus in the first book of his work On Various Types of Life – since thus he will restrain vice and promote virtue. Also (they maintain) he will marry, as Zeno says in his Republic, and beget children. Moreover, they say that the wise man will never form mere opinions, that is to say, he will never give assent to anything that is false; that he will also play the Cynic, Cynicism being a short cut to virtue, as Apollodorus calls it in his Ethics; that he will even turn cannibal under stress of circumstances. They declare that he alone is free and bad men are slaves, freedom being power of independent action, whereas slavery is privation of the same; |
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| 3. Epicurus, Kuriai Doxai, 7, 40 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Long (2006) 184 |
| 4. Long And Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, None Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Long (2006) 12 |
| 5. Epicurus, Letter To Herodotus, 64-65 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Long (2006) 202 |
| 6. Epicurus, Sententiae Vaticanae, 33, 58, 27 Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Long (2006) 207 |
