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[81] Sen. Dial. vi 3 to 5; above, § 123.
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[82] ‘If you are kissing your wife or child, say that it is a human being whom you are kissing; for when the wife or child dies, you will not be disturbed’ Epict. Manual 3 (after Anaxagoras).
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[84] ‘Never say about anything, I have lost it, but say, I have restored it. Is your child dead? It has been restored. Is your wife dead? She has been restored’ Manual 11.
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[86] ‘illud, ut non doleas, vix audebo exigere; et esse melius scio. sed cui ista firmitas animi continget?’ Sen. Ep. 63, 1.
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[87] ‘inhumanitas est ista, non virtus, funera suorum iisdem oculis, quibus ipsos, videre’ Sen. Ep. 99, 15; cf. Dial. xii 1, 2.
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[88] ‘cum primus nos nuntius acerbi funeris perculit, lacrimas naturalis necessitas exprimit’ Ep. 99, 18.
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[89] ‘nos quod praecipimus, honestum est; cum aliquid lacrimarum adfectus effuderit, non esse tradendum animum dolori’ ib. 27.
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[90] ‘at enim naturale desiderium suorum est. quis negat? sed plus est quod opinio adicit quam quod natura imperavit’ Dial. vi 7, 1.
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[91] ‘fit infelicis animi prava voluptas dolor’ ib. 1, 7.
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[92] ‘non possum molliter adsequi tam durum dolorem; frangendus est’ ib.
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[93] ‘obirascens fortunae animus et de seculo querens’ Sen. Dial. ix 2, 11.
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[94] ‘difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti | se puero, censor castigatorque minorum’ Hor. A. P. 173, 174.
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[95] ‘idem semper de nobis pronuntiare debebimus; malos esse nos, malos fuisse, invitus adiciam et futuros esse’ Sen. Ben. i 10, 3; ‘cupidi omnes et maligni omnes et timidi omnes’ ib. v 17, 3.
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[96] ‘non est quod irascaris; omnes insaniunt’ ib.
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[97] ‘satius est humana vitia placide accipere’ ib. ix 15, 5; ‘omnia vulgi vitia non invisa nobis, sed ridicula videantur’ ib. 2.
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[98] ‘generi humano venia tribuenda est’ ib. iv 10, 2.
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[99] ‘hoc maiores nostri questi sunt, hoc nos querimur, hoc posteri nostri querentur, eversos mores, regnare nequitiam, in deterius res humanas et omne nefas labi; at ista eodem stant loco stabuntque, paulum dumtaxat ultra aut citra mota’ Ben. i 10, 1.
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[101] ‘ad vos deinde transeo, quorum profunda et insatiabilis gula hinc maria scrutatur, hinc terras. alia hamis, alia laqueis, alia retium variis generibus cum magno labore persequitur. nullis animalibus nisi ex fastidio pax est’ Sen. Ep. 89, 22. Another form of luxury is in the eating of food extremely hot or extremely cold: ‘quemadmodum nihil illis satis frigidum, sic nihil satis calidum est, sed ardentes boletos demittunt’ N. Q. iv 13, 10.
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[104] καὶ οἰνωθήσεσθαι μὲν [τὸν σοφόν], οὐ μεθυσθήσεσθαι δέ Diog. L. vii 118. This was the view of Chrysippus; see A. C. Pearson in Journ. Phil. xxx pp. 221 sqq.
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[105] ‘nonnunquam et usque ad ebrietatem veniendum [est], non ut mergat nos, sed ut deprimat. eluit enim curas et ab imo animum movet’ Sen. Dial. ix 17, 8; see further Ep. 83, 14 and 15.
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[106] ‘nihil aliud esse ebrietatem quam voluntariam insaniam’ Ep. 83, 18; ‘omne vitium ebrietas et incendit et detegit, obstantem malis conatibus verecundiam removet. plures enim pudore peccandi quam bona voluntate prohibitis abstinent’ ib. 83, 19.
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[110] ‘si pro magno petet munere artifices scenae et scorta et quae feritatem eius emolliant, libens offeram’ Sen. Ben. vii 20, 3. The furthering of the amour of Nero with Acte was a practical application of this theory: ‘tradit Cluvius ... Senecam contra muliebres illecebras subsidium a femina petivisse, immissamque Acten libertam’ Tac. Ann. xiv 2, 2.
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[111] ‘non est itaque quod credas nos plurimum libidini permisisse. longe enim frugalior haec iuventus quam illa est’ Sen. Ep. 97, 9.
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[113] ‘As to pleasure with women, abstain as far as you can before marriage; but if you do indulge in it, do it in the way which is conformable to custom. Do not however be disagreeable to those who indulge in these pleasures’ Epict. Manual 33, 8.
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[114] τὸ δὲ ἐρᾶν αὐτὸ μόνον ἀδιάφορον εἶναι Stob. ii 7, 5 b 9; cf. § 317.
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[115] ‘eleganter mihi videtur Panaetius respondisse adulescentulo cuidam quaerenti, an sapiens amaturus esset: “de sapiente” inquit “videbimus; mihi et tibi, qui adhuc a sapiente longe absumus, non est committendum ut incidamus in rem commotam, impotentem, alteri emancipatam, vilem sibi”’ Sen. Ep. 116, 5; ‘Did you never love any person, a young girl, slave or free?... have you never flattered your little slave? have you never kissed her feet? What then is slavery?’ Epict. Disc. iv 1, 15 and 17.
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[116] ‘magno pudoris impendio dilecta scorta’ Sen. Dial. ii 6, 7.
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[119] ‘Do not admire the beauty of your wife, and you will not be angry with the adulterer’ Epict. Disc. i 18, 11. Ascetic principles were already practised in Seneca’s time; ‘vino quidam, alii Venere, quidam omni umore interdixere corporibus’ Dial. iv 12, 4.
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[120] ‘lapsa est libido in muliere ignota ... peccavit vero nihilominus, si quidem est peccare tanquam transilire lineas’ Cic. Par. iii 1, 20.

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Roman Stoicism being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire, Project Gutenberg eBook #64488

CHAPTER XIV. SIN AND WEAKNESS. CHAPTER XV. COUNSELS OF PERFECTION.