Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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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
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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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: Seneca
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ISBN: 9781719041980
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Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency is a classic by the famous Roman.

Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: Scholar's Choice
ISBN: 9781294959328
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Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294816874
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Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495942709
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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An excerpt from the introductory: TO THE READER. IT has been a long time my thought to turn Seneca into English; but whether as a translation or an abstract, was the question. A translation, I perceive, it must not be, at last, for several reasons. First, it is a thing already done to my hand, and of above sixty years' standing; though with as little credit, perhaps, to the Author, as satisfaction to the Reader. Secondly, There is a great deal in him, that is wholly foreign to my business: as his philosophical treatises of Meteors, Earthquakes, the Original of Rivers, several frivolous disputes betwixt the Epicureans and the Stoics, etc., to say nothing of his frequent repetitions of the same thing again in other words, (wherein he very handsomely excuses himself, by saying, "That he does but inculcate over and over the same counsels to those that over and over commit the same faults.") Thirdly, His excellency consists rather in a rhapsody of divine and extraordinary hints and notions, than in any regulated method of discourse; so that to take him as he lies, and so to go through with him, were utterly inconsistent with the order and brevity which I propound; my principal design, being only to digest, and commonplace his Morals, in such sort, that any man, upon occasion, may know where to find them. And I have kept myself so close to this proposition, that I have reduced all his scattered Ethics to their proper heads, without any additions of my own, more than of absolute necessity for the tacking of them together. Some other man in my place would perhaps make you twenty apologies for his want of skill and address, in governing this affair; but these are formal and pedantic fooleries, as if any man that first takes himself for a coxcomb in his own heart, would afterwards make himself one in print too. This Abstract, such as it is, you are extremely welcome to; and I am sorry it is no better, both for your sakes and my own, for if it were written up to the spirit of the original, it would be one of the most valuable presents that ever any private man bestowed upon the public; and this, too, even in the judgment of both parties, as well Christian as Heathen, of which in its due place. Next to my choice of the Author and of the subject, together with the manner of handling it, I have likewise had some regard, in this publication, to the timing of it, and to the preference of this topic of Benefits above all others, for the groundwork of my first essay. We are fallen into an age of vain philosophy (as the holy apostle calls it) and so desperately overrun with Drolls and Sceptics, that there is hardly any thing so certain or so sacred, that is not exposed to question and contempt, insomuch, that betwixt the hypocrite and the Atheist, the very foundations of religion and good manners are shaken, and the two tables of the Decalogue dashed to pieces the one against the other; the laws of government are subjected to the fancies of the vulgar; public authority to the private passions and opinions of the people; and the supernatural motions of grace confounded with the common dictates of nature. In this state of corruption, who so fit as a good honest Christian Pagan for a moderator among Pagan Christians?