work_id,theme,provenance,created_at,text,reviewed_on,id,comments,metaphor,dictionary,updated_at,context
7737,"",ECCO-TCP,2013-10-16 16:59:38 UTC,"The most pointed satire I remember to have read, on a mind enslaved by anger, is an observation of Seneca's.
Alexander (said he) had two friends, Clitus and Lysimachus; the one he exposed to a lion, the other to himself: he who was turned loose to the beast escaped, but Clitus was murdered, for he was turned loose to an angry man.
A PASSIONATE woman's happiness is never in her own keeping: it is the sport of accident, and the slave of events. It is in the power of her acquaintance, her servants, but chiefly of her enemies, and all her comforts lie at the mercy of others. So far from being willing to learn of him who was meek and lowly, she considers meekness as the want of a becoming spirit, and lowliness as a despicable and vulgar meanness. And an imperious woman will so little covet the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, that it is almost the only ornament she will not be solicitous to wear. But resentment is a very expensive vice. How dearly has it cost its votaries, even from the sin of Cain, the first offender in this kind!
(pp. 118-20)",,23011,"","""The most pointed satire I remember to have read, on a mind enslaved by anger, is an observation of Seneca's.""",Fetters,2013-10-16 16:59:38 UTC,On True and False Meekness
7738,"",ECCO-TCP,2013-10-16 17:01:53 UTC,"But the heart, that natural seat of evil propensities, that little troublesome empire of the passions, is led to what is right by slow motions and imperceptible degrees. It must be admonished by reproof, and allured by kindness. Its liveliest advances are frequently impeded by the obstinacy of prejudice, and its brightest promises often obscured by the tempests of passion. It is slow in its acquisition of virtue, and reluctant in its approaches to piety.
(p. 127)",,23012,"","""But the heart, that natural seat of evil propensities, that little troublesome empire of the passions, is led to what is right by slow motions and imperceptible degrees.""",Empire,2013-10-16 17:01:53 UTC,Thoughts on the Cultivation of the Heart and Temper in the Education of Daughters