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mindfulstudyquest · 11 days

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“ vindica te tibi „ – and what we should learn from an old stoic like Seneca

if you have ever studied latin or philosophy, you will certainly have stumbled upon Seneca, a very problematic dude who, however, occasionally said the right things.

“ vindica te tibi „ is my all-time-favorite latin quote, it litterally means “ vindicate yourself for yourself „, but we can translate it better with “ take control of yourself „. in order to deeply understand this statement, let's take a look at stoic philosophy.

stoicism [ from latin stōicus and ancient greek Στωϊκός ( stōïkós ) ]: it’s a philosophy designed to make us more resilient, happier, more virtuous and more wise and – as a result – better people, better parents and better professionals. it is a philosophical and spiritual current with a rational (human rationality is the basis of everything), pantheistic (everything is God, God is everywere, the whole universe is God), deterministic (nothing happens by chance but everything is regulated by precise logical laws), and dogmatic (all that is, as being, is real and concrete) imprint, with a strong ethical and tendentially optimistic orientation. stoicism was founded in Athens around 300 bc by Zeno of Citium and later it was introduced to rome by Panaetius of Rhodes in the 2nd century bc. stoicism is a tool in the pursuit of self-mastery, perseverance, and wisdom: something one uses to live a great life, rather than some esoteric field of academic inquiry. [ sources wikipedia and dailystoic ]

Seneca was a stoic philosopher who lived in rome in the 1st century ad, and he wrote this quote in a letter addressed to Lucilus, a friend of his much younger than him, interested in philosophy and politics.

in this letter ( the first of his epistolary ) he deals with the theme of time and the brevity of life, a subject that he would often return to in many of his works. basically Seneca claims that life isn't actually that short, as the majority of people complain, we're just very good at waste our time beign slaves of something, instead of using it wisley. there are many ways people waste their time, he calls them " the busy ones ", those people who spend their energies on useless business and relationships, which lead neither to their personal growth nor to an economic, social or psychological advantage, just because they're used to it.

Seneca is saying that we are so used to wasting time, doing certain things just because we have been taught to do so, that we don't realize that we could do much more for ourselves and for our enviroment if we only knew how to use our time correctly.

" vindica te tibi " means that you have to take control of your time, because no one can give it back to you. your future depends on the investment in yourself and in your time, your future and who you are as a person is up to you. take control of yourself.

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yorgunherakles · 1 month

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sana hiçbir şey yetmeyecek, sen de başkalarına yetmeyeceksin.

seneca - epistulae morales

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aspiring-holistic-otaku · 1 year

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No man was ever wise by chance.

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#just another day #lucius annaeus seneca #the stoic

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bocadosdefilosofia · 6 months

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«¿Quieres conocer la causa de ello? Todo el tiempo que ha transcurrido se halla en un mismo lugar, se contempla de una vez, yace conjuntamente; todo él termina en un mismísimo abismo. Por lo demás no pueden existir largos intervalos en esa realidad que, en su conjunto, es de breve duración. Un punto es el tiempo de nuestra vida y menos todavía que un punto; mas también de esta realidad mínima la naturaleza se burló dándole la apariencia de una más larga duración. Una parte de ella constituyó la infancia, otra la niñez, otra la juventud, otra ese declinar que se extiende de la juventud a la vejez, otra la propia vejez. ¡Cuántos peldaños para una escalada tan corta!»

Séneca: Epístolas morales a Lucilio, I. Editorial Gredos, pág. 288. Madrid, 1986

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#séneca #lucio anneo séneca #lucius annaeus seneca #séneca el joven #epístolas morales a lucilio #tiempo #temporalidad #niñez #juventud #madurez #vejez #duración #apariencia #estoicismo #filosofía latina #época antigua #teo gómez otero #género epistolar #lucilio

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brasideios · 3 days

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Why should I demand from Fortuna that she should give me this and that, rather than demand from myself that I should not ask for them?

- Seneca, Letter 15. Letters from a Stoic. Translated by R.Campbell

#character inspo #quote #seneca #lucius annaeus seneca

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justwatchmyeyes · 11 months

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“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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do-you-know-this-play · 3 months

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#thyestes #seneca #lucius annaeus seneca #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls

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majestativa · 1 month

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— Heiner Müller, A Heiner Muller Reader: Plays, Poetry, Prose, on Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl by Carl Weber, (2006)

#German #Heiner Müller #A Heiner Muller Reader #Carl Weber #(2006)#Lucius Annaeus Seneca #Seneca

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 2 years

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A restoration of the central mosaic of the Wellow Courtyard Villa in Somerset, a first century CE Roman villa rediscovered in 1685, whose imagery is thought to have been inspired by pagan, stoic or gnostic religious thought

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There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. Plura sunt, Lucili, quæ nos terrent quam quæ premunt, et sæpius opinione quam re laboramus. —Lucius Annæus Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistolæ morales, epis xiii (64 CE).

[Scott Horton]

#Scott Horton #lucius annaeus seneca #Mosaic #about art #First Century CE #Roman Payne #quotes

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anxcad · 1 year

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