Project Gutenberg 2017-11-28 Public domain in the USA. 1279 Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 65 Seneca, L. A. (Lucius Annaeus) Seneca, Annaeus Annaeus Seneca, Lucius L'Estrange, Roger, Sir 1616 1704 L'Estrange, R. (Roger), Sir L'Estrange, Sir Roger Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer, Les Galloway, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) "Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency" by Seneca is a philosophical text likely written in the 1st century AD. This work discusses Stoic ethics, focusing on key concepts such as happiness, the virtues, and the nature of benefits and gratitude. The texts are rich in moral contemplation, offering insights on how to lead a fulfilled life grounded in virtue and rationality. The opening portion provides a preface by Sir Roger L'Estrange, who indicates his intent to present Seneca's moral writings in a condensed form rather than as a direct translation. He highlights the need for clarity and brevity in discussing benefits and their ethical implications in a world plagued by ingratitude and hypocrisy. L'Estrange sets the stage for a detailed exploration of the nature of benefits, emphasizing their significance in human relationships and social order while reflecting on the value of gratitude in times of adversity. The text positions itself as a remedy to the moral decay of society, aiming to distill profound ethical lessons into accessible wisdom. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 66.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Ethics Conduct of life BJ Text Category: Classics of Literature Category: Philosophy & Ethics 688098 2025-07-22T10:21:31.143390 text/html 664782 2024-10-23T02:57:18 text/html 469269 2025-07-22T10:21:39.352266 application/epub+zip 464688 2025-07-22T10:21:32.273385 application/epub+zip 391277 2025-07-22T10:21:31.713343 application/epub+zip 607489 2025-07-22T10:21:45.247781 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 528818 2025-07-22T10:21:38.720765 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 445479 2022-08-25T09:20:41.124749 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 638145 2025-07-22T10:21:30.329335 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 618034 2024-10-23T02:57:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17242 2025-07-22T10:21:45.391726 application/rdf+xml 19471 2025-07-22T10:21:31.807294 image/jpeg 2506 2025-07-22T10:21:31.761304 image/jpeg 359740 2025-07-22T10:21:31.202307 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia