Author: Seneca Lucius Annaeus Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 935995473X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 256
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"Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger, and Clemency" by means of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a famous Stoic truth seeker from historic Rome, offers deep insights into ethical concept and sensible knowledge. In this series, Seneca talks approximately important problems associated with dwelling a glad lifestyle. The book approximately how to stay a glad lifestyle goes into element about the Stoic ideas of distinctiveness, expertise, and willpower. Seneca says that the right manner to be happy is to end up a good man or woman and hold your internal peace regardless of what takes place inside the outside global. In the phase on gifts, Seneca talks greater about how crucial it is to be generous and the way kindness works each method. He talks about the ethical responsibility to help others and the advantages of doing precise things. The study of anger talks about how dangerous this emotion is and urges people to control it. Seneca offers useful suggestions on the way to study your temper and talks about how out-of-manage anger can harm your relationships and private fitness. Finally, Seneca talks approximately clemency. He says that pity and forgiveness are properly features that assist human beings and society get along. He emphasizes the Stoic concept that forgiveness can store humans and that acts of kindness can make humans better.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Franklin Classics ISBN: 9780341979142 Category : Languages : en Pages : 396
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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Scholar's Choice ISBN: 9781294959328 Category : Languages : en Pages : 404
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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230372006 Category : Ethics Languages : en Pages : 98
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... SENECA OF CLEMENCY. The humanity and excellence of this virtue is confessed at all hands, as well by the men of pleasure, and those that think every man was made for himself, as by the Stoics, that make "man a sociable creature, and born for the common good of mankind: " for it is of all dispositions the most peaceable and quiet. But before we enter any farther upon the discourse, it should be first known what clemency is, that we may distinguish it from pity; which is a weakness, though many times mistaken for a virtue: and the next thing will be, to bring the mind to the habit and exercise of it. "Clemency is a favorable disposition of the mind, in the matter of inflicting punishment; or, a moderation that remits somewhat of the penalty incurred; as pardon is the total remission of a deserved punishment." We must be careful not to confound clemency with pity; for as religion worships God, and superstition profanes that worship; so should we distinguish betwixt clemency and pity; practicing the one, and avoiding the other. For pity proceeds from a narrowness of mind, that respects rather the fortune than the cause. It is a kind of moral sickness, contracted from other people's misfortune: such another weakness as laughing or yawning for company, or as that of sick eyes that cannot look upon others that are bleared without dropping themselves. I will give a shipwrecked man a plank, a lodging to a stranger, or a piece of money to him that wants it: I will dry up the tears of my friend, yet I will not weep with him, but treat him with constancy and humanity, as one man ought to treat another. It is objected by some, that clemency is an insignificant virtue; and that only the bad are the better for it, for the good have no need of it. But in...
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Nabu Press ISBN: 9781295654987 Category : Languages : en Pages : 402
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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca Publisher: Alpha Edition ISBN: 9789353863999 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 394
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Author: Seneca Lucius Annaeus
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Author: Seneca
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca