SENECA ON DESIRE Flashcards
(17 cards)
The vices beset us and surround us on every side …
They keep us down when once they have overwhelmed us and we are chained to lust
But there us a dishonourable stain on those who
Throw themselves into gluttonous desires
He who does not need good fortune is happier then
He whom it attends
Lust was given to humanity not for the sake of pleasure but for
The propagation of the human race
Pleasure may make the indispensable means of existence
Attractive to our eyes
Let us not expose this unstable spirit
To the temptations of drink
(the wise man) Can halt his tears and
His pleasure at will
Drunkenness does not create vices
But it brings them out
You, the slave of lust, of gluttony, of a harlot …
Can you call anyone else a slave
Man is more fortunate than God, because God has no enjoyment of the things which are given to us
For lust pertains not to God
Removed from all lust. These men
Fortune herself in no way can surpass
All vices rebel against Nature ;
They all abandon the appointed order
The strings of lust which
Rips the soul apart
Kretiner
Seneca believed that only once you detach yourself from all desires, can you build a genuinely selfless connection
Kretiner
Stoics held that sexual intecourse is the very antithesis of reason
Evenepoel
There is no room for passion in friendship
Motto
He and later Stoics stressed the regulation of emotions rather than their denial
