Sextius
historical figure · 2 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Quintus Sextius the father · Sextius the father · our Demetrius
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Letters to Lucilius (Latin)
Sextius the father rejected honours, who, though born to take up the management of the commonwealth, did not accept the broad stripe, though the deified Julius offered it.
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Roman philosopher who abstained from eating animals for reasons of health and avoiding cruelty
Sotion used to tell why Pythagoras abstained from animals, and why later Sextius did.
Sextius believed that man had enough of nourishment short of blood, and that a habit of cruelty arose where the tearing of flesh had been brought into a pleasure.
But when you have read Sextius you will say:
On Anger
Philosopher cited as the source of the practice of looking in a mirror while angry as a corrective technique.
To some, as Sextius says, it has profited, when angry, to look in a mirror;
This Sextius used to do, that, when the day was finished and he had withdrawn to his nightly rest, he would ask his mind: