Tranquillity
“euthymia”
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
blessed · blessed life · euthymia · exemption from all duties · most blessed life · the blessed life · tranquillity · tranquillity of mind
spoken of as
2 expressionsThe blessed life“tranquillity”1 mention
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
But we place the blessed life in tranquillity of mind and in exemption from all duties.
blessedness“the blessed life”1 mention
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
for Metrodorus accuses his brother Timocrates, because he hesitates to measure all that pertains to the blessed life by the belly — and he says this not once but often.
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
The Epicurean ideal of blessedness as freedom from labor, trouble, and duty, applied both to the gods and to human life.
But we place the blessed life in tranquillity of mind and in exemption from all duties.
And you are wont to ask of us, Balbus, what the life of the gods is, and what kind of existence is led by them;
plainly such that nothing more blessed, nothing more abounding in all good things, can be conceived.
On Tranquillity of Mind
The steady, untroubled state of mind that is the subject and goal of the whole dialogue, Seneca's translation of the Greek euthymia.
This steadfast seat of the mind the Greeks call euthymia—on which there is an excellent treatise by Democritus;
We are asking, then, how the mind may always hold an even and favorable course, be gracious to itself, look upon its own state with gladness, and not break off that joy, but abide in a calm condition, never lifting itself up nor casting itself down.