prosperity
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
blessings · greatness · happy and prosperous · success
in the texts
Hymn 20 To Hephaestus
A desired condition of flourishing requested from Hephaestus in prayer.
Be gracious, Hephaestus, and grant me success and prosperity!
Nicocles or the Cyprians
The flourishing of state, empire, and subjects promised through good rule and loyal service.
For I observe that it is through such discourses that states attain the highest prosperity and greatness.
nay, I attended so devotedly and honorably to my duties that I left nothing undone which could contribute to the greatness of the state and advance its prosperity;
For if I continue to treat you as in time past, and you continue to give me your service and support, you will soon see your own life advanced, my empire increased, and the state made happy and prosperous.
Letters to Lucilius
Material and social success, portrayed as a source of instability and moral danger when excessive.
The same befalls minds too, which immoderate prosperity bursts, and which men use not only to the injury of others, but even to their own.
And so they are slaves to their pleasures, not enjoyers of them, and—what is the last of evils—they even love their own evils.
What enemy was ever so insolent to any man as some men's pleasures are to them?