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"As long as the Colosseum, there will Rome when the Colosseum falls, Rome will also fall, but when Rome falls, the world will fall"
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![]() He dedicated himself first successfully to life forensic, but in 41 AD was exiled by Emperor Claudius in Corsica for a suspected adultery. Returning to Rome in 49 AD, he became tutor of Nero, but showed greater preference for the arts and for philosophy. Following the rise to power of his disciple, in 54 AD, Seneca writes the De clementia , in which he is a candidate as adviser to the prince; you supports the thesis that the clemency is all the more admirable, the greater is the power of those who manifest . The clemency is the polar opposite of anger - the disease of the tyrant - of which Seneca describes the causes and suggests therapy in another writing, the De ira : if we want to get the better sull'ira, she should not be to get the better of us . We will start to win only when the hide and will prevent the burst of the outside; In fact - says Seneca - if we allow to flow, it dominates us: we must therefore hide in the deepest of our remote chest, it must be dragged because there drag; we must fight all his clues and its manifestations: it should soften the voice, loosen up, hold the face and gradually the inside and outside will comply.
The collaboration with Nero lasted until 62, when the killing of butter, which had joined Seneca in the position of director, the clemency of the prince dissolved.
Forced to political impotence, philosophy becomes for Seneca Street redemption. The loss of political space is compensated by the extension in time of the effectiveness of its action, exercised with writing.
According to Seneca, then, virtue is not closed to anyone and for this aspect also the slaves are men. He, however, 'does not draw the conclusion that a slave virtuous should also be freed from slavery in legal terms, as this legal condition affects only the body of the slave, who, delivered by fate to a master, can not change their status because with the fate not interfere: even the master is the slave of fate.
Much of the work of Seneca is then devoted to the fleeting nature of time: so they open the letters to Lucilius and De brevitate vitae; the central idea of Seneca is that " do not have a short time, but we lose a lot ". |
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