De la providence
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
- Étendue:
- ~8 210 mots · 39 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APALucius Annaeus Seneca. (n.d.). Of Providence [De la providence]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/seneca/of-providence
- MLALucius Annaeus Seneca. Of Providence [De la providence]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/seneca/of-providence.
- ChicagoLucius Annaeus Seneca. Of Providence [De la providence]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/seneca/of-providence.
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De quoi il s'agit
Pourquoi de mauvaises choses arrivent-elles aux gens bons si le monde est gouverné par la providence ? La réponse stoïcienne : l'adversité est l'entraînement, et le sage n'est pas celui qui ne souffre pas mais celui que la souffrance ne plie pas.
Contexte et histoire
Traduction anglaise du De providentia, écrit vers l'an 64 sous Néron. Cette entrée est la traduction anglaise ; l'original latin est au catalogue à part et c'est lui qu'il faut citer.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
Do you consider Socrates to have been badly used, because he took that draught which the state assigned to him as though it were a charm to make him immortal, and argued about death until death itself? Was he ill treated, because his blood froze and the current of his veins gradually stopped as the chill of death crept over them? How much more is this man to be envied than he who is served on precious stones, whose drink a creature trained to every vice, a eunuch or much the same, cools with snow in a golden cup? Such men as these bring up again all that they drink, in misery and disgust at the taste of their own bile, while Socrates cheerfully and willingly drains his poison. As for Cato, enough has been said, and all men must agree that the highest happiness was reached by one who was chosen by Nature herself as worthy to contend with all her terrors: "The enmity," says she, "of the powerful is grievous, therefore let him be opposed at once by Pompeius, Caesar, and Crassus: it is grievous, when a candidate for public offices, to be defeated by one's inferiors; therefore let him be defeated by Vatinius: it is grievous to take part in civil wars, therefore let him fight in every part of the world for the good cause with equal obstinacy and ill-luck: it is grievous to lay hands upon one's self, therefore let him do so. What shall I gain by this? That all men may know that these things, which I have deemed Cato worthy to undergo, are not real evils." IV.