66 definitions
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Paradoxa Stoicorum
47 concepts · 66 definitions
- ambition1
- avarice1
- character1
- citizen1
- collector1
- community1
- conduct1
- contentment1
- corruption1
- crime1
- cupidity1
- death1
- desire1
- elegance1
- eloquence1
- exile3
- fashion1
- fear1
- fortune2
- good1
- guilt3
- happiness1
- honesty1
- injury1
- legacy hunter1
- liberation1
- liberty1
- misery1
- paradox1
- parricide2
- parsimony1
- passions1
- piety1
- pleasure3
- possession2
- rich man1
- riches3
- self-mastery1
- service1
- sin2
- slavery2
- soul1
- temperance1
- vice1
- virtue4
- wealth4
- wise man1
Wealth (n.) is defined not by the census but by habit and mode of life: not to be greedy is wealth; not to be extravagant is revenue.
Wealth (n.) is measured by need — and a man with innumerable passions needs a greater estate than a father of fifty daughters.
Wealth (n.) belongs to the man with a surplus on a hundred sestertia, not to the man with a deficit on six hundred.
Wealth (n.) torments its owners twice: with the lust of increasing it and with the fear of losing what they have.
Virtue (n.) is the safest estate: it can not be lost by fire or by shipwreck, nor alienated by the convulsions of tempest or of time.
Virtue (n.) is a power the fool knows nothing of: he only usurps her name and is a stranger to her influence.
Virtue (n.) admits no degrees: a man can not be better than good, braver than brave, nor wiser than wise.
Virtue (n.) is uniform and of unvarying consistency: nothing can be added to make it more than virtue, nothing taken from it and the name of virtue be left.
Exile (n.) is terrible to those who have a circumscribed habitation, but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city.
Exile (n.) is the penalty of guilt, and the guilty are exiles even when they have not changed their locality.
Exile (n.) only removes a good man from the wicked.
Guilt (n.) sends a man's crimes after him like so many furies: look where he will, they meet his view and suffer him not to breathe.
Guilt (n.) is the same whether a pilot oversets a ship laden with gold or one laden with straw: the cargoes differ in value, his ignorance does not.
Guilt (n.) makes slaves of great men: they must serve chattering boys and fear as masters all who seem to know anything against them.
Riches (n.) belong to the mind and not the coffers: when the coffers are full and the man is empty, he is not rich.
Riches (n.) consist in virtue, since no amount of gold and silver is more to be valued than virtue.
Riches (n.) consist in plenty, the overflow of the means of life; whoever needs all his earnings can never be rich.
Pleasure (n.) dislodges the mind from its habitual and settled position — and the greater it is, the more it dislodges.
Pleasure (n.) as the highest good is the creed of a brute rather than of a man.
Pleasure (n.) makes no one better or more praiseworthy; no man boasts of himself for having enjoyed pleasures.
Parricide (n.) may carry no guilt at all: the Saguntines chose that their parents should die as freemen rather than live as slaves.
Parricide (n.) is many sins in one: it strikes the man who begat you, fed you, brought you up, and gave you your place in home, family and state.
Possession (n.) worth the name go with you when you flee a fallen city empty-handed: \"I carry with me all my possessions.\"
Possession (n.) that can be taken away, plundered, or lost are nothing any man can call his own.
Slavery (n.) is obedience to a disordered, abject mind destitute of self-control — and so all the dishonest, the covetous, the wicked are slaves.
Slavery (n.) can be born in the noblest family: does she ask? he must give; does she call? he must come; does she threaten? he must tremble.