Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Men Then and Now
Orosius 1.21.18 (tr. Roy J. Deferrari):
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There is this difference between men of that time and the present, namely, that the former endured these intolerable things with equanimity, because they were born and nurtured among them and knew no better, whereas the men of today being perpetually and serenely accustomed in their lives to tranquillity and pleasure, are aroused by every even moderate cloud of anxiety that envelops them.
inter illius temporis homines atque istius hoc interest, quod illi aequo animo haec intoleranda tolerabant, quia in his nati vel enutriti erant et meliora non noverant: isti autem, perpetuo in vita sua tranquillitatum et deliciarum sereno adsuefacti, ad omne vel modicum obductae sollicitudinis nubilum commoventur.
