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SENECA. an example of Stoicism. THE MUMMY

Here is the philosopher Seneca SOME THOUGHTS ON HOW THE MAN SHOULD ACT AGAINST LIFE.
a vision of a stoic.

Bust of Seneca.

wise not to, fearing that neither lives nor attempting goes: because it has so much self-confidence, reach out to wary not to fortune, never rendírsele, and possessing a thing in which to fear it, because it is provided not only slaves, estates and dignities, but his own body, his eyes and hands, and everything that can make life more pleasant living and paid himself, for without sadness returned to it again to ask, and not dismissed in knowing that is not theirs, before all things done with such great diligence and circumspection, as religious and holy man, who keeps what is handed to his faith, and when I shall command will return without complaints of fortune, by say, "Doyte thanks for the time that I owned. I regard with reverence your stuff, but I ask for them, I returned with the will and appreciation, if any gustare me, I will keep it too, but now that you like it, I restores the silverware, the coined home and family. "If I call you the wild, which was the first one I gave to me, I will say again:" Take my mind, improved back to you what you gave me, not ronceo or fled; sizing is for me, that I am without a will, get what you gave me when I had no sense. "Returning to the part where we come from, What is annoying? He will live badly, who know not the span of dying well.

First, then, has been to remove the estimate is a life back, saying among other things subservient. (...) Because

disease, captivity, and burning debris are things I do not flash, I knew how I stay locked unruly nature.


Many times I felt tears in my neighborhood, many saw through my door burials seasoned with torches and candles, and many of those whom the court, the court and joined the conversation with me, he took one night, dividing his hands clasped in friendship.

(...) And these things are not separated by long intervals, with only a moment away from being on the throne when prostrating to his knees outside. Convince yourself, then, that every state is mutable, and that what you see in others it can happen to you.




Roman Stoics Seneca

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