Retirement
“withdrawal from public duty”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
retirement · desertion · leisure · repose · retiring · your retreat
in the texts
Orations
The concept of withdrawing from civic or social obligations, examined to distinguish true philosophical retirement from cowardly flight or desertion.
What, then, ever is the meaning of retirement, and whom must we set down as men who retire?
Or if a man possessing a large estate, in order to escape the public services, should go away from the city?
And all these things have been said by me from that beginning and digression—that the soul must be accustomed to do what it ought and to think rightly everywhere and in all uproar and in all quiet.
Letters to Lucilius
Withdrawal from public/political life for philosophical self-examination, to be practiced without ostentation.
What do I do in retirement?
hide yourself in retirement.
Therefore it is best not to flaunt one's retirement.