 ... that more naturally produces the one, or more necessarily presupposes the other. For, what is it to be happy, but for a man to content himself with his lot, in a cheerful and quiet resignation to the appointments of God...  A Code of Morals - Seite 25von John Shertzer Hittell - 1888 - 51 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1818 - 516 Seiten
...foundation of true joy is in the conscience. A GOOD MAN CAN NEVER BE MISERABLE, NOR A WICKED MAN HAPPY. THERE is not in the scale of nature a more inseparable connection of cause and effect, than in the case of happiness and virtue: nor any thing that more naturally produces... | |
 | 1842 - 1124 Seiten
...is not the posture of the body, or the composure of the bed, that will give rest to an uneasy mind. There is not in the scale of Nature, a more inseparable connection of cause and effect, than in the case of happiness and virtue : nor any thing that can more naturally... | |
 | John Stewart - 1849 - 244 Seiten
...is not the posture of the body, or the composure of the bed, that will give rest to an uneasy mind. There is not in the scale of Nature, a more inseparable 'connection of cause and effect, than in the case of hap. piness and virtue : nor any thing that can more naturally... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 Seiten
...word, and reinforce it by precept and example ; the pleasure he has had in doing it pays itself, for there is not in the scale of nature a more inseparable connection of cause and effect than in the case of happiness and virtue. To revert to the school of the Established... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1882 - 402 Seiten
...joy is in the conscience." CHAPTER VII. A GOOD MAN CAN NEVER BE MISERABLE.JNOR A WICKED MAN HAPPY. THERE is not in the scale of nature a more inseparable connection of cause and effect, than in the case of happiness and virtue; nor anything that more naturally produces... | |
 | John Stahl Patterson - 1883 - 526 Seiten
...a return, with some improvement, to the good old doctrine of the Stoics, which Seneca thus states: -'There is not in the scale of nature a more inseparable connection of cause and effect than in the case of happiness and virtue; nor anything that more naturally produces... | |
 | American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals - 1899 - 340 Seiten
...conscience is a continual feast. A good man can never be entirely miserable, nor a wicked man happy. There is not in the scale of nature, a more inseparable connection of cause and effect, than in the case of happiness and virtue; nor any thing that more naturally produces... | |
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