Sufre, soporta y padece: fuentes latinas de la resignación en los refranes españoles

Abstract

Spanish refraneroforms a sort of code whose aim is to guide and control the conduct of the members of the linguistic community that has coined these proverbs and uses them. A great part of the ideology that can be gathered from Spanish proverbs was already present in Classical culture. Therefore my overall objective is to trace the Classical precedents of Spanish proverbs. Particularly this paperaims to find in Latin language and literature formal or ideological precursors of a certain amount of Spanish proverbs concerning the stoic attitude we should take in order to confront misfortune. This attitude is based on facing with resignation what fate holds in store for usand it results in accepting pain as an essential part of human existence, promoting a conformist behavior that restrains aspirations to better conditions and makes it unlikelythat the establishment will be broken.

Keywords

• paremiology
• spanish proverbs
• latin literature
• misfortune
• resignation
• stoicism