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

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Contents

  1. To the Reader
  2. Of Seneca’s Writings
  3. Seneca’s Life and Death
  4. Chapter I. Of Benefits in General
  5. Chapter II. Several Sorts of Benefits
  6. Chapter III. A Son May Oblige His Father, and a Servant His Master
  7. Chapter IV. It Is the Intention, Not the Matter, That Makes the Benefit
  8. Chapter V. There Must Be Judgment in a Benefit, as Well as Matter and Intention; And Especially in the Choice of the Person
  9. Chapter VI. The Matter of Obligations, with Its Circumstances
  10. Chapter VII. The Manner of Obliging
  11. Chapter VIII. The Difference and Value of Benefits
  12. Chapter IX. An Honest Man Cannot Be Outdone in Courtesy
  13. Chapter X. The Question Discussed, Whether or Not a Man May Give or Return a Benefit to Himself?
  14. Chapter XI. How Far One Man May Be Obliged for a Benefit Done to Another
  15. Chapter XII. The Benefactor Must Have No by-Ends
  16. Chapter 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
  17. Chapter XIV. How Far to Oblige or Requite a Wicked Man
  18. Chapter XV. A General View of the Parts and Duties of the Benefactor
  19. Chapter XVI. How the Receiver Ought to Behave Himself
  20. Chapter XVII. Of Gratitude
  21. Chapter XVIII. Gratitude Mistaken
  22. Chapter XIX. Of Ingratitude
  23. Chapter XX. There Can Be No Law Against Ingratitude
  24. Chapter I. Of a Happy Life, and Wherein It Consists
  25. Chapter II. Human Happiness Is Founded Upon Wisdom and Virtue; And First, of Wisdom
  26. Chapter III. There Can Be No Happiness Without Virtue
  27. Chapter IV. Philosophy Is the Guide of Life
  28. Chapter V. The Force of Precepts
  29. Chapter VI. No Felicity Like Peace of Conscience
  30. Chapter VII. A Good Man Can Never Be Miserable, nor a Wicked Man Happy
  31. Chapter VIII. The Due Contemplation of Divine Providence Is the Certain Cure of All Misfortunes
  32. Chapter IX. Of Levity of Mind, and Other Impediments of a Happy Life
  33. Chapter X. He That Sets Up His Rest Upon Contingencies Shall Never Be Quiet
  34. Chapter XI. A Sensual Life Is a Miserable Life
  35. Chapter XII. Avarice and Ambition Are Insatiable and Restless
  36. Chapter XIII. Hope and Fear Are the Bane of Human Life
  37. Chapter XIV. It Is According to the True or False Estimate of Things That We Are Happy or Miserable
  38. Chapter XV. The Blessings of Temperance and Moderation
  39. Chapter XVI. Constancy of Mind Gives a Man Reputation, and Makes Him Happy in Despite of All Misfortune
  40. Chapter XVII. Our Happiness Depends in a Great Measure Upon the Choice of Our Company
  41. Chapter XVIII. The Blessings of Friendship
  42. Chapter XIX. He That Would Be Happy Must Take an Account of His Time
  43. Chapter XX. Happy Is the Man That May Choose His Own Business
  44. Chapter XXI. The Contempt of Death Makes All the Miseries of Life Easy to Us
  45. Chapter XXII. Consolations Against Death, from the Providence and the Necessity of It
  46. Chapter XXIII. Against Immoderate Sorrow for the Death of Friends
  47. Chapter XXIV. Consolation Against Banishment and Bodily Pain
  48. Chapter XXV. Poverty to a Wise Man Is Rather a Blessing Than a Misfortune
  49. Chapter I. Anger Described, It Is Against Nature, and Only to Be Found in Man
  50. Chapter II. The Rise of Anger
  51. Chapter III. Anger May Be Suppressed
  52. Chapter IV. It Is a Short Madness, and a Deformed Vice
  53. Chapter V. Anger Is Neither Warrantable nor Useful
  54. Chapter VI. Anger in General, with the Danger and Effects of It
  55. Chapter VII. The Ordinary Grounds and Occasions of Anger
  56. Chapter VIII. Advice in the Cases of Contumely and Revenge
  57. Chapter IX. Cautions Against Anger in the Matter of Education, Converse, and Other General Rules of Preventing It, Both in Ourselves and Others
  58. Chapter X. Against Rash Judgment
  59. Chapter XI. Take Nothing Ill from Another Man, Until You Have Made It Your Own Case
  60. Chapter XII. Of Cruelty
  61. Seneca of Clemency

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