Capitolo 34
same time. Cicero doesn't do, precisely you speak indeed, of "to devote
him", but he adds that he didn't desire to undertake
anything that would emulate his/her study of the philosophy in his/her applications
on him.
Then, turning from the consideration of such obstacles to the
study of the philosophy, Heloise offered me you observe what was the
the conditions of marriage of honourable. What possible harmony was able there
both between researchers and domestics, between authors and cribs,
between books or tablets and distaffs, between the stylus or the
pen and the axle? What a man, intention on his/her religious or
philosophical meditations, can possibly bear the whining of
children, the lullabies of the nanny that it tries to calm them or the
noisy confusion of the life of family? Who can bear the continuous one
the disorder of children? The rich one, you can respond, you/he/she can do this,
because they has buildings or houses that contain a lot of rooms, and
because their wealth doesn't take any thought of expense and protects them
from daily worries. But to this the answer is that the condition of
philosophers are from anybody means that of the rich one, neither it cans those
of who chins are busy with wealth and worldly cares you find time
for religious or philosophical study. For this reason the famous one
philosophers of old man suddenly despised the world, while running away from his
dangers rather than abdicating reluctantly them, and it denied
them all of his/her delights in order that they was able I rest in the
embraces of the philosophy alone. One of the greatest and they of everybody,
It says Seneca, in his/her suggestion to Lucilius: The "philosophy is not a thing
to only be studied in times of ease; we have to abandon everything
other to devote himself/herself/themselves to him, for any amount of time really it is
enough thereto" (Epist. 73).
You cares few, she pointed out, if one abandons the study
of the philosophy completely or only it interrupts him, for him not never
remains to the point where you/he/she was interrupted this way. Every other