When, on leaving Cilicia, I had come to Rhodes and news was brought to me there of the death of Quintus Hortensius, I felt a grief greater than anyone would have expected. For I saw that, in losing a friend, I had been deprived both of delightful companionshi… Brutus, or On Eminent Orators 1 Cicero Antiquity English Anger, Death, Duty My best of mothers, I have often felt eager to console you, and have as often checked that impulse. Many things urged me to make the attempt: in the first place, I thought that if, though I might not be able to restrain your tears, yet that if I could even wi… Consolation to Helvia, His Mother 1 Seneca Antiquity English Anger, Care of the soul, Faith Did I not know, Marcia, that you have as little of a woman’s weakness of mind as of her other vices, and that your life was regarded as a pattern of antique virtue, I should not have dared to combat your grief, which is one that many men fondly nurse and embr… Consolation to Marcia 1 Seneca Antiquity English Affects, Anger, Care of the soul The Tao that can be described is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name. (Conceived of as) having no name, it is the Originator of heaven and earth; (conceived of as) having a name, it is the Mo… Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue 1 Laozi Antiquity English Affects, Care of the soul, Dao 1. These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suf, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
2. It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.
3.… Deuteronomy 1 Moses Antiquity English Anger, Care of the soul, Courage Of things some are in our power, and others are not. In our power are opinion ([Greek: hupolaepsis]), movement towards a thing ([Greek: hormae]), desire, aversion ([Greek: echchlisis]), turning from a thing; and in a word, whatever are our acts. Not in our po… Enchiridion of Epictetus 1 Epictetus Antiquity English Anger, Care of the soul, Desire 1. Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):
2. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
3. Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,
4. Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.
5. All the souls who came out of J… Exodus 1 Moses Antiquity English Care of the soul, Covenant, Death Deal, April 29, 1763. • IT was some relief, my dear Mrs. Vesey> to the confusion I felt from your very obliging reproaches, that my Letter was sent before I re ceived them, and must have met your's on the road. Bad as my head now is, it shall not prevent my t… Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey 1 Elizabeth Carter Modern era English Affects, Anger, Attachment 1. The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
2. “Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, … Numbers 1 Moses Antiquity English Anger, Care of the soul, Community IF a dwelling-house, by reason of its ill situation or contrivance, be not commodiously light and airy, or too much exposed to ill weather and unhealthy, it is most advisable entirely to quit such a habitation, unless perhaps, through continuance of time, nei… On Curiosity 1 Plutarch Antiquity English Affects, Aponia, Care of the soul QUINTUS MUCIUS SCAEVOLA, the augur, used to relate with an accurate memory and in a pleasing way many incidents about his father-in-law, Gaius Laelius, and, in every mention of him, did not hesitate to call him the Wise. Now, I, upon assuming the toga virilis… On Friendship 1 Cicero Antiquity English Care of the soul, Death, Desire You have asked me, Lucilius, why, if the world be ruled by providence, so many evils befall good men? The answer to this would be more conveniently given in the course of this work, after we have proved that providence governs the universe, and that God is am… On Providence 1 Seneca Antiquity English Anger, Courage, Creation These things then, said Sylla, agree with my story, and are taken thence. But I should first willingly ask, what need there is of making such a preamble against these opinions, which are at hand and in every man’s mouth, concerning the face that is seen withi… On the Face in the Moon 1 Plutarch Antiquity English Aporia, Comparative character, Elenchus I might truly say, Serenus, that there is as wide a difference between the Stoics and the other sects of philosophers as there is between men and women, since each class contributes an equal share to human society, but the one is born to command, the other to… On the Firmness of the Wise Person 1 Seneca Antiquity English Care of the soul, Civic duty, Death All men, brother Gallio, wish to live happily, but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy: and so far is it from being easy to attain to happiness that the more eagerly a man struggles to reach it the further he departs from it, if he… On the Happy Life 1 Seneca Antiquity English Anger, Care of the soul, Desire [_Serenus._] When I examine myself, Seneca, some vices appear on the surface, and so that I can lay my hands upon them, while others are less distinct and harder to reach, and some are not always present, but recur at intervals: and these I should call the mo… On Tranquillity of Mind 1 Seneca Antiquity English Anger, Care of the soul, Courage For a long while, Brutus, I doubted whether it would be harder or more considerable to refuse what you had so often asked of me, or to accomplish what you had long and earnestly requested. For it seemed very harsh to refuse one whom I loved above all others a… Orator 1 Cicero Antiquity English Moral decorum, Family, Justice The natural result of any investigation is that the investigators either discover the object of search or deny that it is discoverable and confess it to be inapprehensible or persist in their search. So, too, with regard to the objects investigated by philoso… Outlines of Pyrrhonism 1 Sextus Empiricus Antiquity English Academic skepticism, Affects, Anger 1. [Cicero, On Duties I, 3, 9.] Thus, as Panaetius sees it, deliberation in forming a decision is threefold. For people doubt whether an action is honorable or disgraceful, a question that falls within deliberation and in considering which their minds are oft… Panaetius Fragments in Fowler’s Edition 1 Panaetius Antiquity English Appropriate action, Civic cooperation, Civic duty I once heard him discuss the subject of estate management in the following manner. Tell me, Critobulus, is estate management the name of a branch of knowledge, like medicine, smithing and carpentry? I think so, replied Critobulus. And can we say what the func… Socrates in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus 1 Xenophon Antiquity English Affects, Anger, Care of the soul To my mind it is worth while to relate not only the serious acts of great and good men but also what they do in their lighter moods. I should like to narrate an experience of mine that gives me this conviction. It was on the occasion of the horse-races at the… Socrates in Xenophon’s Symposium 1 Xenophon Antiquity English Anger, Care of the soul, Courage Chapter I. 1. The Master said, "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? 2. "Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? 3. "Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may t… The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ) 1 Confucius Antiquity English Affects, Anger, Care of the soul 