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Posidonios d'Apamée , philosophe stoïcien grec, surnommé « l'athlète », fut aussi un savant, géographe et historien. Il est le brillant représentant de l'esprit hellénistique, à la fois empirique et spéculatif, curieux de tout. Né à Apamée sur l'Oronte vers -135, et mort à Rome vers 51 av. J.-C., il devint le sixième scolarque du Portique, à la mort de son maître, Panétios de Rhodes, en 112 av. J.-C. Selon les transcriptions du grec ancien ou du latin, son nom peut apparaître sous les formes Poseidonios ou Poseidônios, Posidonios ou Posidonius d'Apamée, Posidonios ou Posidonius de Rhodes. Wikipedia  

✵ 135 av. J.-C. – 51 av. J.-C.
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“Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on so that they are ready to do evil.”

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As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXXVII (trans. R. M. Gummere)

“A single day among the learned lasts longer than the longest life of the ignorant.”

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As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXVIII (trans. R. M. Gummere)

“There are never any occasions when you need think yourself safe because you wield the weapons of Fortune; fight with your own! Fortune does not furnish arms against herself; hence men equipped against their foes are unarmed against Fortune herself.”

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As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle CXIII (trans. R. M. Gummere)

“When men were scattered over the earth, protected by eaves or by the dug-out shelter of a cliff or by the trunk of a hollow tree, it was philosophy that taught them to build houses.”

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As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle XC (trans. R. M. Gummere)

“Things which bestow upon the soul no greatness or confidence or freedom from care are not goods. But riches and health and similar conditions do none of these things; therefore, riches and health are not goods. Things which bestow upon the soul no greatness or confidence or freedom from care, but on the other hand create in it arrogance, vanity, and insolence, are evils. But things which are the gift of Fortune drive us into these evil ways. Therefore these things are not goods.”

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Posidonius

As quoted in Epistulae morales ad Lucilium by Seneca, Epistle LXXXVII (trans. R. M. Gummere)

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