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Seneca-12

...matters do not stand so well with mankind that the majority should prefer the better course: the more people do a thing the worse it is likely to be.

Lucius Annaeus, old buddy, they still do not stand so well, believe it or not

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Сенека-11

И просто красивое)

We can serve the greater commonwealth even when we are at leisure; indeed I am not sure that we cannot serve it better when we are at leisure to inquire into what virtue is, and whether it be one or many: whether it be nature or art that makes men good: whether that which contains the earth and sea and all that in them is be one, or whether God has placed therein many bodies of the same species: whether that out of which all things are made be continuous and solid, or containing interstices and alternate empty and full spaces: whether God idly looks on at His handiwork, or directs its course: whether He is without and around the world, or whether He pervades its entire surface: whether the world be immortal, or doomed to decay and belonging to the class of things which are born only for a time? What service does he who meditates upon these questions render to God? He prevents these His great works having no one to witness them.

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Seneca-10

and Robert Frost, with a cynical twist XD

Nor do we take any heed of whether our road be good or bad in itself, but we value it by the number of footprints upon it, among which there are none of any who have returned.

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Сенека-9

и мой терапевт, бгг

they retain their wish for labour longer than their capacity for it, and fight against their bodily weakness; they think old age an evil for no other reason than because it lays them on the shelf. The law does not enroll a soldier after his fiftieth year, or require a senator’s attendance after his sixtieth: but men have more difficulty in obtaining their own consent than that of the law to a life of leisure.

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Сенека-8

и Томас Мор, некоторым образом (что-то мне подсказывает что он его читал... вот кстати интересно, да, читал или нет)

The position of all busy men is unhappy, but most unhappy of all is that of those who do not even labour at their own affairs, but have to regulate their rest by another man’s sleep, their walk by another man’s pace, and whose very love and hate, the freest things in the world, are at another’s bidding. If such men wish to know how short their lives are, let them think how small a fraction of them is their own.

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однако за время пути собачка могла подрасти

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the notion of work-life balance we torture ourselves [with] -- no life is going to be able to achieve balance, everything worth doing will unbalance your life.
(c) Alain de Botton

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British humor XD

Have just discovered the collective noun for bankers: wunch.
A wunch of bankers.

(а кто оч внезапно читает детектив Вэл МакДермид тот я))

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бгг

Нажаловалась чату ГПТ на Ютуб WTF is my life

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Seneca-7

и Двенадцатый Доктор) Возможно, мне мерещится, но прям сильно мерещится) И не только по смыслу, но и стилистически))

Для сравнения, сначала Доктор (Hell Bent, моя любимая серия ибо вот это всё плюс крутой закос под Бетховена в OST-e)

As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves slowly, but it never stops. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it will follow. Never faster, never slower, always coming. You will run, it will walk. You will rest, it will not. One day, you will linger in the same place too long, you will sit too still or sleep too deep. And when, too late, you rise to go, you will notice a second shadow next to yours. Your life will then be over.

А теперь Сенека, диалог "О краткости жизни":

your life will run its course when once it has begun, and will neither begin again or efface what it has done. It will make no disturbance, it will give you no warning of how fast it flies: it will move silently on: it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the wish of a nation: as it started on its first day, so it will run: it will never turn aside, never delay. What follows, then? Why! you are busy, but life is hurrying on: death will be here some time or other, and you must attend to him, whether you will or no.

@темы: книги, имя розы, Doctor Who, binge watching

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Seneca-6

You have no grounds, therefore, for supposing that anyone has lived long, because he has wrinkles or grey hairs: such a man has not lived long, but has only been long alive. Why would you think that a man had voyaged much if a fierce gale had caught him as soon as he left his port, and he had been driven round and round the same place continually by a succession of winds blowing from opposite quarters? such a man has not travelled much, he has only been much tossed about.

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божи какая прелесть

Саймоно-гарфанкелевская Sound of Silence на классической латыни, ыыы

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Roman practicality :)

At the beginning of Quinctilis Rome began to fill up with country people, most of whom were looking for lodgings until after the middle of September. Nor did as many as usual leave for the seashore, even among the upper classes. Aware that crime and disease would both be on the increase, Pompey devoted some of his splendid organizational talents to diminishing crime and disease by hiring ex-gladiators to police the alleys and byways of the city, by making the College of Lictors keep an eye on the shysters and tricksters who frequented the Forum Romanum and other major marketplaces, by enlarging the swimming holes of the Trigarium, and plastering vacant walls with warning notices about good drinking water, urinating and defaecating anywhere but in the public latrines, clean hands and bad food.

(Colleen McCullough, Masters of Rome)

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my own personal

Jesus Томас Мор в сай-фай сеттинге՞

пятница, 16 мая 2025 в 14:54

Пишет Lanierus:

Для strega_verde
Надеюсь, похож)

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Seneca-5

... and the right to disconnect XD

The founders of our laws appointed festivals, in order that men might be publicly encouraged to be cheerful, and they thought it necessary to vary our labours with amusements, and, as I said before, some great men have been wont to give themselves a certain number of holidays in every month, and some divided every day into playtime and work-time. Thus, I remember that great orator Asinius Pollio would not attend to any business after the tenth hour: he would not even read letters after that time for fear some new trouble should arise, but in those two hours used to get rid of the weariness which he had contracted during the whole day.

... and mindfulness XD

I have now, my beloved Serenus, given you an account of what things can preserve peace of mind, what things can restore it to us, what can arrest the vices which secretly undermine it: yet be assured, that none of these is strong enough to enable us to retain so fleeting a blessing, unless we watch over our vacillating mind with intense and unremitting care.

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Визуально

красивое, конечно.


Otherwise, попытки по отмыванию очень чёрного кобеля, ну такое себе. В духе современного морального релятивизма, унесите пудинг, бубубу. Нет, я понимаю, что автор первоисточника сильно не любил католицизм, но могли бы в качестве антикатолического героя-страдальца выбрать кого-нибудь менее сомнительного)) Тиндейла например) Но Тиндейл не занимался организацией королевских разводов, there is that. Бубубу.

@темы: книги, binge watching

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Смотрю

вторую часть Вулф Холла, уже прям интересно, сделают ли они из Кромвелля совсем святого или остановятся где-то на полпути)
Пара статей про Томаса Мора в сериале приятно когда не у одного тебя пукан взорвался, бгг

www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/20...
bookhaven.stanford.edu/2015/06/late-reflections...

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Сенека-4

за две тыщи лет до фейсбука и инстаграмма (курсив мой)))

They wander purposelessly seeking for something to do, and do, not what they have made up their minds to do, but what has casually fallen in their way. They move uselessly and without any plan, just like ants crawling over bushes, which creep up to the top and then down to the bottom again without gaining anything. Many men spend their lives in exactly the same fashion, which one may call a state of restless indolence. You would pity some of them when you see them running as if their house was on fire: they actually jostle all whom they meet, and hurry along themselves and others with them, though all the while they are going to salute someone who will not return their greeting, or to attend the funeral of someone whom they did not know: they are going to hear the verdict on one who often goes to law, or to see the wedding of one who often gets married: they will follow a man’s litter, and in some places will even carry it: afterwards returning home weary with idleness, they swear that they themselves do not know why they went out, or where they have been, and on the following day they will wander through the same round again. <...>they are excited by the outward appearance of something, and their crazy mind cannot see its futility. <...>he finds that the most difficult person of all to find at home is himself. From this evil habit comes that worst of all vices, talebearing and prying into public and private secrets, and the knowledge of many things which it is neither safe to tell nor safe to listen to.

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Сенека-3

За пару тыщ лет до Оскара Уайльда:

as a rule sadness arises from one of these two things, either from want of success or from being ashamed of having succeeded

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