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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca · 65

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, (wh…

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