Diàlegs menors, junt amb el Diàleg sobre la clemència
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- anglès
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- Obra completa
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- Escrita per l'autor
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- Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
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- ~150.000 paraules · 696 passatges
Cita aquesta obra
- APALuci Anneu Sèneca. (n.d.). Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency [Diàlegs menors, junt amb el Diàleg sobre la clemència]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/minor-dialogues-together-with-the-dialogue-on-clemency
- MLALuci Anneu Sèneca. Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency [Diàlegs menors, junt amb el Diàleg sobre la clemència]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/minor-dialogues-together-with-the-dialogue-on-clemency.
- ChicagoLuci Anneu Sèneca. Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency [Diàlegs menors, junt amb el Diàleg sobre la clemència]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/seneca/minor-dialogues-together-with-the-dialogue-on-clemency.
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De què tracta
El recull dels tractats breus de Seneca —sobre la ira, la brevetat de la vida, la tranquil·litat, la providencia, el savi, la felicitat, l'oci— mes el «De clementia», adreçat a Neró.
Context i història
«Dialegs» es el nom tradicional, pero no son dialegs: son assaigs amb un interlocutor implicit, i son la forma en que l'estoicisme roma es fa practic. «Sobre la ira» es un tractat de psicologia moral que encara es llegeix per aixo mateix; «Sobre la brevetat de la vida» sosté que el temps no ens falta, que el malgastem. El «De clementia» es l'incomode i el mes revelador: escrit cap al 55 dC, quan Seneca era el tutor i conseller del jove emperador, explica al poder per que li convé ser clement. Es un document sobre com un filosof intenta influir un principe des de dins, i el que va passar despues —Neró va acabar ordenant-li la mort— es part del que fa que valgui la pena llegir-lo.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
what you said when you were consoling others: then I should have seen whether you could have consoled yourself, whether you could have forbidden yourself to grieve. Do not, I beg you, dread those things which the immortal gods apply to our minds like spurs: misfortune is virtue’s opportunity. Those men may justly be called unhappy who are stupified with excess of enjoyment, whom sluggish contentment keeps as it were becalmed in a quiet sea: whatever befalls them will come strange to them. Misfortunes press hardest on those who are unacquainted with them: the yoke feels heavy to the tender neck. The recruit turns pale at the thought of a wound: the veteran, who knows that he has often won the victory after losing blood, looks boldly at his own flowing gore. In like manner God hardens, reviews, and exercises those whom He tests and loves: those whom He seems to indulge and spare, He is keeping out of condition to meet their coming misfortunes: for you are mistaken if you suppose that any one is exempt from misfortune: he who has long prospered will have his share some day; those who seem to have been spared them have only had them put off. Why does God afflict the best of men with ill-health, or sorrow, or other troubles? Because in the army the most hazardous services are assigned to the bravest soldiers: a general sends his choicest troops to attack the enemy in a midnight ambuscade, to reconnoitre his line of march, or to drive the hostile garrisons from their strong places. No one of these {13} men says as he begins his march, “The general has dealt hardly with me,” but “He has judged well of me.” Let those who are bidden to suffer what makes the weak and cowardly weep, say likewise, “God has thought us worthy subjects on whom to try how much suffering human nature can endure.…