Diálogos menores, junto con el Diálogo sobre la clemencia
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- inglés
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- Obra completa
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- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~150.000 palabras · 696 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APALucio Anneo Séneca. (n.d.). Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency [Diálogos menores, junto con el Diálogo sobre la clemencia]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/seneca/minor-dialogues-together-with-the-dialogue-on-clemency
- MLALucio Anneo Séneca. Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency [Diálogos menores, junto con el Diálogo sobre la clemencia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/seneca/minor-dialogues-together-with-the-dialogue-on-clemency.
- ChicagoLucio Anneo Séneca. Minor Dialogues, Together With the Dialogue on Clemency [Diálogos menores, junto con el Diálogo sobre la clemencia]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/seneca/minor-dialogues-together-with-the-dialogue-on-clemency.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
La colección de los tratados breves de Séneca —sobre la ira, la brevedad de la vida, la tranquilidad, la providencia, el sabio, la felicidad, el ocio— más el «De clementia», dirigido a Nerón.
Contexto e historia
«Diálogos» es el nombre tradicional, pero no son diálogos: son ensayos con un interlocutor implícito, y son la forma en que el estoicismo romano se hace práctico. «Sobre la ira» es un tratado de psicología moral que todavía se lee por eso mismo; «Sobre la brevedad de la vida» sostiene que el tiempo no nos falta, que lo malgastamos. El «De clementia» es el incómodo y el más revelador: escrito hacia el 55 d. C., cuando Séneca era tutor y consejero del joven emperador, explica al poder por qué le conviene ser clemente. Es un documento sobre cómo un filósofo intenta influir en un príncipe desde dentro, y lo que pasó después —Nerón acabó ordenándole la muerte— es parte de lo que hace que valga la pena leerlo.
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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.…