Dietetics, economics, and erotics
Pliny's Letters #10 - Euphrates, a Stoic philosopher
from Pliny: "I have worked to be loved by him, though that was not difficult."
Seneca's De Beneficiis: one must not only provide services in a friendship, but that it is said that it is quite a job, quite a labor to get oneself loved by the person whose friendship one desires.
The body, the family circle and household; love. These are the three major domains in which the practice of the self is actualized in the Roman period. In Plato's text, care of the self is definitely distinguished from the care of the body, that is to say dietetics, the care for one's goods, that is to say economics, and the lover's care, that is to say erotics. These three domains are reintegrated, but as a reflecting surface, as the occasion for the self to test itself, train itself, and develop the practice of itself which is its rule of life and its objective. They are application for the practice of the self.
身体、事业、爱情
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