Hardship and Happiness (Ad Marciam De consolatione, Ad Helviam matrem De consolatione, De Consolatione ad Polybium, De Brevitate Vitæ, De Constantia Sapientis, De Tranquillitate Animi, De Otio, De Vita Beata, De Providentia)

by Seneca

They do not, then, indulge in luxury at the urging of Epicurus, but rather, being devotees of the vices, they conceal their luxury in philosophy’s lap and make a beeline for where they hear pleasure is praised. Nor do they appreciate how sober and temperate is that pleasure of Epicurus (this, by Hercules, is my opinion!), but they fling themselves toward his very name, seeking for their lusts a sponsor and a veil.30 (5) And so they lose the one good thing they had in their bad actions: shame for their wrongdoing. Now, you see, they praise the things at which they used to blush, and they boast about their vice. Thus not even a resurgence of regret is allowed,31 when a moral label is placed on disgraceful idleness. This is why your praise of virtue is dangerous: moral precepts are hidden within, while what is outwardly shown is that which corrupts.

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