Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency is the version of the Roman Stoic made by Sir Roger L'Estrange, the Restoration pamphleteer and censor, in 1678, and for a century and a half the form in which English readers knew Seneca. L'Estrange does not translate so much as digest, rearranging Seneca's treatises On Benefits, On a Happy Life, On Anger and On Clemency and extracts from the letters into chapters with his own vigorous headings, and adding a short life of the author. The result is a handbook of Stoic ethics in colloquial seventeenth-century prose on the passions, adversity, favors and the duties of rulers. Franklin read Seneca in this form. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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