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To the Reader
Of Seneca’s Writings Seneca’s Life and Death SENECA’S OF BENEFITS 1. Of Benefits in General 2. Several Sorts of Benefits 3. A Son May Oblige His Father, and a Servant His Master 4. It Is the Intention, Not the Matter, That Makes the Benefit 5. There Must Be Judgment in a Benefit, as well as Matter and Intention 6. The Matter of Obligations, with Its Circumstances 7. The Manner of Obliging 8. The Difference and Value of Benefits 9. An Honest Man Cannot Be Outdone in Courtesy 10. The Question Discussed, Whether or Not a Man Give or Return a Benefit to Himself? 11. How Far One Man May Be Obliged for a Benefit Done to Another 12. The Benefactor Must Have No By-Ends 13. There Are Many Cases Wherein a Man May Be Minded of a Benefit 14. How Far to Oblige or Requite a Wicked Man 15. A General View of the Parts and Duties of the Benefactor 16. How the Receiver Ought to Behave Himself 17. Of Gratitude 18. Gratitude Mistaken 19. Of Ingratitude 20. There Can Be No Law Against Ingratitude SENECA OF A HAPPY LIFE 1. Of a Happy Life, and Wherein It Consists 2. Human Happiness Is Founded upon Wisdom and Virtue 3. There Can Be No Happiness without Virtue 4. Philosophy Is the Guide of Life 5. The Force of Precepts 6. No Felicity Life Peace of Conscience 7. A Good Man Can Never Be Miserable, Nor a Wicked Man Happy 8. The Due Contemplation of Divine Providence Is the Certain Cure of All Misfortunes 9. Of Levity of Mind, and Other Impediments of a Happy Life 10. He That Sets up His Rest upon Contingencies Shall Never Be Quiet 11. A Sensual Life Is a Miserable Life 12. Avarice and Ambition Are Insatiable and Restless 13. Hope and Fear Are the Bane of Human Life 14. It Is According to the True or False Estimate of Things That We Are Happy or Miserable 15. The Blessings of Temperance and Moderation 16. Constancy of Mind Gives a Man Reputation, and Makes Him Happy in Despite of All Misfortune 17. Our Happiness Depends in a Great Measure upon the Choice of Our Company 18. The Blessings of Friendship 19. He That Would Be Happy Must Take an Account of His Time 20. Happy Is the Man That May Choose His Own Business 21. The Contempt of Death Makes All the Miseries of Life Easy to Us 22. Consolations Against Death, from the Providence and the Necessity of It 23. Against Immoderate Sorrow for the Death of Friends 24. Consolation Against Banishment and Bodily Pain 25. Poverty to a Wise Man Is Rather a Blessing Than a Misfortune SENECA OF ANGER 1. Anger Described, It Is Against Nature, and Only to Be Found in Man 2. The Rise of Anger 3. Anger May Be Suppressed 4. It Is a Short Madness, and a Deformed Vice 5. Anger Is Neither Warrantable Nor Useful 6. Anger in General, with the Danger and Effects of It 7. The Orinary Grounds and Occasions of Anger 8. Advice in the Cases of Contumely and Revenge 9. Cautions Against Anger in the Matter of Education, Converse 10. Against Rash Judgment 11. Take Nothing Ill from Another Man, until You Have Made It Your Own Case 12. Of Cruelty SENECA OF CLEMENCY |