Roman Stoicism / being lectures on the history of the Stoic philosophy with special reference to its development within the Roman Empire

by Edward Vernon Arnold

[51] ‘quae maxima credis | esse mala, exiguum censum turpemque repulsam’ Hor. Ep. i 1, 43.

[52] ‘virtus, repulsae nescia sordidae, | intaminatis fulget honoribus; | nec sumit aut ponit secures | arbitrio popularis aurae’ Hor. C. iii 2, 17-20.

[53] ‘Chrysippus, when asked why he took no part in politics, replied: ‘because, if a man is a bad politician, he is hateful to the gods; if a good politician, to his fellow-citizens’ Stob. iv 4, 29.

[54] ‘si percensere singulas [res publicas] voluero, nullam inveniam, quae sapientem aut quam sapiens pati possit’ Sen. Dial. viii 8, 3.

[55] ‘si potes, subduc te istis occupationibus; si minus, eripe’ Ep. 19, 1.

[56] ‘mobilis et inquieta homini mens data est. nunquam se tenet, vaga et quietis impatiens, et novitate rerum laetissima’ ib. xii 6, 6.

[57] ‘ratio et prudentia curas | ... aufert; | caelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt’ Hor. Ep. i 11, 25-27.

[58] Sen. Dial. ix 12-15.

[59] ‘inde ille adfectus otium suum detestantium querentiumque nihil ipsos habere quod agant’ ib. 2, 10.

[60] ‘incertam fortunam experimur, vim tempestatum nulla humana ope superabilem, mortem sine spe sepulturae. non erat tanti’ N. Q. v 18, 6 and 7; ‘non eadem est his et illis causa solvendi, sed iusta nulli’ ib. 16; ‘quid non potest mihi suaderi, cui persuasum est ut navigarem?’ Ep. 53, 1.