Thursday, May 26, 2011

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Seneca - Thoughts. Part VI



A happy life
1 • 1


All Gallionie brother, want to live happily, but wander in the darkness when it comes to knowing what is what makes life happy. And to the extent it is difficult to achieve a happy life, that anyone who descends from the right path, the more it moves away from him, the sooner we seek. And since the road leads opposite direction, same speed causes the distance increases more and more.


1 • 3



Nothing entangles us in a greater evil than to succumb to public opinion and the recognition as the best of what was met with great acclaim, than drawing on so many examples and principles of life is not podług reason, but imitation.


1 • 4



We lose the imitation of others: oddzielmy only from the crowd, and we will return to health.

2 • 1


human affairs are not going so well that they liked most of what is better!


2 • 4


The things that attract the eye and which would be congruent to each other with admiration shows these things on the surface shine, and are in the midst of mediocrity.

3 • 3


happy life in harmony with his nature, but can be achieved provided that the mind is, above all, healthy and continues to retain health, then he is brave and strong, continued, extremely durable, adapted to the circumstances, the attentive, without any squeamishness, about your body and all that about him, as well as caring about other things that bring order to the force, though without any admiration for any of them, and finally, that it intends to use gifts of fate, but not be their slave.
3 • 4


When we despise the pleasure and pain, then in place of all things trivial and worthless, and even harmful for their heinous consequences, he enters a great joy, steadfast and constant, then peace, spiritual harmony and size combined with gentleness. All because the cruelty is born of weakness.

4 • 2


highest good is the spirit, contemptuous of random goods, joyfully virtue, or more precisely, unbeaten strength of spirit, experienced in all mild in action, gentle in dealing with others.
4 • 3


... What disturbs us say that a happy life is the soul free, proud, fearless and imperturbable, standing outside of fear and desire, the soul, for which only welfare generosity, the only evil wickedness, and the rest mass of worthless things that come and go, without omitting or adding anything lucky life, without increasing or diminishing the highest good?

4 • 5


... So we have to go free. The only way to get it to her indifference to the fate: if the word is born invaluable good, peace of mind, and loftiness already completely secure, and after the destruction of errors great and lasting joy of knowing the truth and kindness and serenity that comes with it will be a source of pleasure, not because themselves are good, but because they stem from his own good.
5 • 2-3


... No one who remains outside the truth, can not be called happy. And so life is a happy inplanted fairness and certainty of court, and not subject to change.

6 • 2


... happy man is happy with his time, whatever they were, and in favor of his condition. Is Happy, who makes sense to appreciate all the conditions of existence.

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right mind never changes and does not feel disgust for himself, nor transformed into anything in his life, which is always the best. Meanwhile bliss ends when you provide the greatest joy. There is a lot of space on it, so I quickly causes satiety, disgust and begins to wake up after the first burst of losing power.
8 • 3


Let a man can not be spoiled by external things and let it be undefeated and podziwiającym only himself, believing in yourself, and the finished good and bad - an artist of life ...!

8 • 6


... reluctance and hesitation to show the inner struggle and the lack of constancy. Therefore, you can confidently say that the greatest good is the harmony of the soul. For where harmony and unity, must be, and virtue: misdemeanors accompanied by discord.
9 • 3


highest good lies in the selection and excellent attitude of mind, and when he finishes his way and shut up within their borders, then the supreme good reaches its fullness and needs nothing more. There is nothing can be outside the whole, just like anything - except the final frontier.
9 • 4


Looking for man's happiness, not happiness abdomen, which is the largest capacity in cattle and wild animals!


10 • 2


Who does not know that the greatest fools enjoy the most of your delight, that the iniquity is full of fun and that spirit alone provides a wide variety of transgressive pleasure? First of all, it is arrogance, excessive self-esteem and inflated above the elevation of others, blind and uncritical attachment to their own thing, dissolute pleasure and elevation of a petty and childish reasons, harshness and arrogance lubująca in insults, idleness and debauchery flowing with a lazy, sluggish mind.

12 • 2


sage pleasures are quiet and modest, almost inert, dull and barely visible, as they come without being summoned, and even come automatically, are neither appreciated nor accepted with joy by those who experience it. They in fact they mix and combine with life, like entertainment and humor combined with serious matters.

13 • 5


Excessive delight is injurious: but when it comes to virtue, do not be afraid of any excess, because it is itself a measure, it is not good what is breaking from his own greatness.

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.. To make the virtues of this sublime mistress, slave of pleasure, it is appropriate behavior for a man in whose spirit there is no room for anything big!

14 • 2


As with difficulty and danger of being exposed to the hunt on wild animals, and we do not stop after the capture of their fear - often because their masters beats - so it is also the great delights: they become big misfortune and doścignięte race. They are more numerous and bigger, the more enslaved nędzniejszy and is the one who sparkles mob happy.
15 • 7


... We are linked by a solemn oath that we will endure our human fate, without losing the spirit of balance due to what we can not avoid. We were born in the absolute monarchy: true freedom is to be obedient to God.

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noble thing to strive for loftiness of purpose, not by measuring their own strength, but the strength of his nature, and undertake more ambitious plans than they could meet even the men of unusual strength spirit.
20 • 6

Really, you who hate the virtues and her followers, is not progressing at all in a strange way. Because diseased eyes and fear the sun, and nocturnal animals abhor the daily brightness, with the first dawn fall into stupor, looking in all their holes and the fear of hiding in the light of any quality cavities. Ostrzcie Syczcie and vilifying their damn language of noble people, szczerzcie teeth kąsajcie: sooner will break their teeth, than will you be able to bite.

21 • 4

Sage is not considered to be unworthy of any accidental gifts: not love of wealth, but will have them, not to the soul receives them, but to the house, not rejects those held, but stopped because he wants his virtue to provide more opportunities.

24 • 1

're wrong, if anyone thinks that giving is an easy thing, it is very difficult, if only separated gifts wisely and not squandered their chance and under the influence of caprice.




24 • 3


Where a man is, there is an opportunity to wyświadczania benefits.


24 • 5



argue that wealth is not good: if it was, would make people good. And since what is at the bad people can not be called good, I think that this name should not be used to wealth. I admit, moreover, that it is worth having, useful, and that provides significant comfort in life.

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