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The Epistles of Seneca contains all 124 Moral Letters to Lucilius in Richard Mott Gummere's translation. Written around 62-65 CE, the collection examines time, friendship, mortality, wealth, pain, retirement, virtue…
View BookIn the fragmentary dialogue Of Leisure, Seneca asks whether a Stoic may withdraw from political life while remaining useful to humanity. Across eight surviving sections, he distinguishes idleness from contemplative…
View BookIn On Tranquillity of Mind, Serenus asks Seneca how to overcome a restless wavering between simplicity and luxury, public service and retirement, modest writing and ambition. Across seventeen sections, Seneca…
View BookWritten during Seneca's exile on Corsica, Of Consolation: To Helvia, His Mother reassures Helvia that her absent son has not been made miserable by displacement, reduced wealth or lost status.…
View BookOf Benefits is Sir Roger L'Estrange's 1678 compilation of Seneca's teaching on generosity, obligation and gratitude. Its twenty chapters argue that a benefit is defined chiefly by intention, judgement and…
View BookOf Anger is Sir Roger L'Estrange's 1678 English compilation of Senecan teaching on anger, revenge and cruelty. Across twelve thematic chapters, it examines anger's origin in judgement, distinguishes involuntary first…
View BookOf a Happy Life is Sir Roger L'Estrange's 1678 English compilation of Senecan moral teaching, arranged in twenty-five thematic chapters. Rather than directly translating the single ancient dialogue De Vita…
View BookIn On the Shortness of Life, Seneca argues that life is not inherently too brief: it becomes short when time is surrendered to distraction, ambition, anxiety and endless obligation. Addressing…
View BookIn On the Firmness of the Wise Person, Seneca defends the Stoic claim that genuine wisdom cannot be injured or insulted. Addressing Serenus across nineteen sections, he distinguishes bodily or…
View BookIn On Providence, Seneca responds to the question of why good people suffer if the universe is governed by divine order. Across six sections addressed to Lucilius, he argues that…
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