Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
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Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

Lucius Annaeus Seneca · narrated by Heart

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The Stoic statesman on living well, forgiving freely, and facing death without fear. Seneca's letters and essays on benefits, anger, and clemency remain some of the most humane counsel to survive from the ancient world. He writes about wealth without despising it and about hardship without flinching. Timeless guidance on keeping a steady heart in an unsteady world, as useful to a modern listener as it was to a Roman senator.

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60 chapters

  1. 1TO THE READER.8m
  2. 2OF SENECA’S WRITINGS.13m
  3. 3SENECA’S LIFE AND DEATH.14m
  4. 4SENECA OF BENEFITS.7m
  5. 5CHAPTER III. A SON MAY OBLIGE HIS FATHER, AND A SERVANT HIS MASTER.10m
  6. 6CHAPTER IV. IT IS THE INTENTION, NOT THE MATTER, THAT MAKES THE BENEFIT.6m
  7. 7CHAPTER V. THERE MUST BE JUDGMENT IN A BENEFIT, AS WELL AS MATTER AND INTENTION; AND ESPECIALLY IN THE CHOICE OF THE PERSON.4m
  8. 8CHAPTER VI. THE MATTER OF OBLIGATIONS, WITH ITS CIRCUMSTANCES.8m
  9. 9CHAPTER VII. THE MANNER OF OBLIGING.9m
  10. 10CHAPTER VIII. THE DIFFERENCE AND VALUE OF BENEFITS.11m
  11. 11CHAPTER IX. AN HONEST MAN CANNOT BE OUTDONE IN COURTESY.7m
  12. 12CHAPTER X. THE QUESTION DISCUSSED, WHETHER OR NOT A MAN MAY GIVE OR RETURN A BENEFIT TO HIMSELF?4m
  13. 13CHAPTER XI. HOW FAR ONE MAN MAY BE OBLIGED FOR A BENEFIT DONE TO ANOTHER.6m
  14. 14CHAPTER XII. THE BENEFACTOR MUST HAVE NO BY-ENDS.16m
  15. 15CHAPTER XIII. THERE ARE MANY CASES WHEREIN A MAN MAY BE MINDED OF A BENEFIT, BUT IT IS VERY RARELY TO BE CHALLENGED, AND NEVER TO BE UPBRAIDED.13m
  16. 16CHAPTER XIV. HOW FAR TO OBLIGE OR REQUITE A WICKED MAN.14m
  17. 17CHAPTER XV. A GENERAL VIEW OF THE PARTS AND DUTIES OF THE BENEFACTOR.9m
  18. 18CHAPTER XVI. HOW THE RECEIVER OUGHT TO BEHAVE HIMSELF.13m
  19. 19CHAPTER XVII. OF GRATITUDE.9m
  20. 20CHAPTER XVIII. GRATITUDE MISTAKEN.6m
  21. 21CHAPTER XIX. OF INGRATITUDE.10m
  22. 22CHAPTER XX. THERE CAN BE NO LAW AGAINST INGRATITUDE.9m
  23. 23SENECA OF A HAPPY LIFE.7m
  24. 24CHAPTER II. HUMAN HAPPINESS IS FOUNDED UPON WISDOM AND VIRTUE; AND FIRST, OF WISDOM.11m
  25. 25CHAPTER III. THERE CAN BE NO HAPPINESS WITHOUT VIRTUE.20m
  26. 26CHAPTER IV. PHILOSOPHY IS THE GUIDE OF LIFE.19m
  27. 27CHAPTER V. THE FORCE OF PRECEPTS.17m
  28. 28CHAPTER VI. NO FELICITY LIKE PEACE OF CONSCIENCE.10m
  29. 29CHAPTER VII. A GOOD MAN CAN NEVER BE MISERABLE, NOR A WICKED MAN HAPPY.10m
  30. 30CHAPTER VIII. THE DUE CONTEMPLATION OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE IS THE CERTAIN CURE OF ALL MISFORTUNES.16m
  31. 31CHAPTER IX. OF LEVITY OF MIND, AND OTHER IMPEDIMENTS OF A HAPPY LIFE.15m
  32. 32CHAPTER X. HE THAT SETS UP HIS REST UPON CONTINGENCIES SHALL NEVER BE QUIET.12m
  33. 33CHAPTER XI. A SENSUAL LIFE IS A MISERABLE LIFE.16m
  34. 34CHAPTER XII. AVARICE AND AMBITION ARE INSATIABLE AND RESTLESS.13m
  35. 35CHAPTER XIII. HOPE AND FEAR ARE THE BANE OF HUMAN LIFE.8m
  36. 36CHAPTER XIV. IT IS ACCORDING TO THE TRUE OR FALSE ESTIMATE OF THINGS THAT WE ARE HAPPY OR MISERABLE.8m
  37. 37CHAPTER XV. THE BLESSINGS OF TEMPERANCE AND MODERATION.18m
  38. 38CHAPTER XVI. CONSTANCY OF MIND GIVES A MAN REPUTATION, AND MAKES HIM HAPPY IN DESPITE OF ALL MISFORTUNE.21m
  39. 39CHAPTER XVII. OUR HAPPINESS DEPENDS IN A GREAT MEASURE UPON THE CHOICE OF OUR COMPANY.10m
  40. 40CHAPTER XVIII. THE BLESSINGS OF FRIENDSHIP.10m
  41. 41CHAPTER XIX. HE THAT WOULD BE HAPPY MUST TAKE AN ACCOUNT OF HIS TIME.15m
  42. 42CHAPTER XX. HAPPY IS THE MAN THAT MAY CHOOSE HIS OWN BUSINESS.14m
  43. 43CHAPTER XXI. THE CONTEMPT OF DEATH MAKES ALL THE MISERIES OF LIFE EASY TO US.19m
  44. 44CHAPTER XXII. CONSOLATIONS AGAINST DEATH, FROM THE PROVIDENCE AND THE NECESSITY OF IT.11m
  45. 45CHAPTER XXIII. AGAINST IMMODERATE SORROW FOR THE DEATH OF FRIENDS.12m
  46. 46CHAPTER XXIV. CONSOLATION AGAINST BANISHMENT AND BODILY PAIN.9m
  47. 47CHAPTER XXV. POVERTY TO A WISE MAN IS RATHER A BLESSING THAN A MISFORTUNE.10m
  48. 48SENECA OF ANGER.6m
  49. 49CHAPTER II. THE RISE OF ANGER.5m
  50. 50CHAPTER III. ANGER MAY BE SUPPRESSED.8m
  51. 51CHAPTER IV. IT IS A SHORT MADNESS, AND A DEFORMED VICE.5m
  52. 52CHAPTER V. ANGER IS NEITHER WARRANTABLE NOR USEFUL.20m
  53. 53CHAPTER VI. ANGER IN GENERAL, WITH THE DANGER AND EFFECTS OF IT.21m
  54. 54CHAPTER VII. THE ORDINARY GROUNDS AND OCCASIONS OF ANGER.11m
  55. 55CHAPTER VIII. ADVICE IN THE CASES OF CONTUMELY AND REVENGE.10m
  56. 56CHAPTER IX. CAUTIONS AGAINST ANGER IN THE MATTER OF EDUCATION, CONVERSE, AND OTHER GENERAL RULES OF PREVENTING IT, BOTH IN OURSELVES AND OTHERS.14m
  57. 57CHAPTER X. AGAINST RASH JUDGMENT.9m
  58. 58CHAPTER XI. TAKE NOTHING ILL FROM ANOTHER MAN, UNTIL YOU HAVE MADE IT YOUR OWN CASE.5m
  59. 59CHAPTER XII. OF CRUELTY.10m
  60. 60SENECA OF CLEMENCY.36m
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