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LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS - SENECA QUOTES - Coggle Diagram
LOVE & RELATIONSHIPS - SENECA QUOTES
ON BENEFITS
’A husband has certain duties, but those of a wife are no less important’
’Chastity merely implies ugliness’
ON CONSTANCY
If a man sleeps with his wife pretending she is someone else’s then ‘he will be an adulterer, although she will not be an adulteress’
ON THE IDEAL GROUNDS FOR FRIENDSHIP
’Think long and hard whetehr someone should be taken into your friendship’
LETTER 9
’He will live happily even without friends’
LETTER 104
’What is more pleasant than to be so dear to your wife that you become dearer to yourself on this account?’
LETTER 127
’Don’t men live contrary to nature when they aim for the glow of boyhood?’
ON PROVIDENCE
Maecenas as ‘distressed by affairs of the heart and lamenting the daily rebuffs’
ON ANGER
’Shameless company perverts even the strong man…the same principle is true of the virtues’
’Rage will sweep you here and there…will you ever find time for love?’
’My wife, no stranger now to my habit, has fallen silent’
CONSOLATION TO MARCIA
Women as having ‘just as much aptitude for noble actions’
ON THE TRANQUILITY OF MIND
’Nothing, however, delights the mind as much as loving and loyal friendship’
’Let lust follow nature’s course’
ON THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE
’Their very pleasures are fearful’
CONSOLATION TO HELVIA
’Sexual desire was given to man, not for the sake of pleasure, but in order to continue the human race’
’It is not open to you to claim your female sex as an excuse as your own excellent qualities make you a stranger to this’
NATURAL QUESTIONS
’This man’s lust knew no distinction of sex’
Used distorting mirrors to ‘see all his accomplice’s movements’
PHAEDRA
‘First: want the right things, no straying. The second is knowing and setting a limit to one’s sins’ Nurse
‘Sinners are worse than monsters. Monsters are caused by fate, but sin by character’ Nurse
’I know the things you say are true: but my lust forces me to follow the worse decision’ Phaedra
’A kind of heat - or love - burns up my mad heart. It rages like wildfire in my marrow’ Phaedra
TACITUS’ ANNALS
’She demanded her part in the executioner’s stroke’