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Moral letters to
Lucilius
  SENECA
 AD LUCILIUM
 EPISTULAE
MORALES

WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY

RICHARD M. GUMMERE, PH.D.
OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE
 IN THREE VOLUMES

LONDON : WILLIAM
HEINEMANN
NEW YORK : G. P. PUTNAM'S
SONS
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CONTENTS
 Volume 1
Introduction
Letter 1 On saving time
On discursiveness in
Letter 2
reading
Letter 3 On true and false friendship
Letter 4 On the terrors of death
Letter 5 On the philosopher's mean
Letter 6 On sharing knowledge
Letter 7 On crowds
On the philosopher's
Letter 8
seclusion
On philosophy and
Letter 9
friendship
Letter 10 On living to oneself
Letter 11 On the blush of modesty
Letter 12 On old age
Letter 13 On groundless fears
On the reasons for
Letter 14
withdrawing from the world
Letter 15 On brawn and brains
On philosophy, the guide of
Letter 16
life
Letter 17 On philosophy and riches
Letter 18 On festivals and fasting
On worldliness and
Letter 19
retirement
On practising what you
Letter 20
preach
Letter 21 On the renown which my
 writings will bring you
On the futility of half-way
Letter 22
measures
On the true joy which
Letter 23
comes from philosophy
Letter 24 On despising death
Letter 25 On reformation
Letter 26 On old age and death
Letter 27 On the good which abides
On travel as a cure for
Letter 28
discontent
On the critical condition of
Letter 29
Marcellinus
On conquering the
Letter 30
conqueror
Letter 31 On siren songs
Letter 32 On progress
On the futility of learning
Letter 33
maxims
Letter 34 On a promising pupil
On the friendship of kindred
Letter 35
minds
Letter 36 On the value of retirement
Letter 37 On allegiance to virtue
Letter 38 On quiet conversation
Letter 39 On noble aspirations
On the proper style for a
Letter 40
philosopher's discourse
Letter 41 On the god within us
Letter 42 On values
Letter 43 On the relativity of fame
On philosophy and
Letter 44
pedigrees
On sophistical
Letter 45
argumentation
Letter 46 On a new book by Lucilius
Letter 47 On master and slave
On quibbling as unworthy of
Letter 48
the philosopher
Letter 49 On the shortness of life
On our blindness and its
Letter 50
cure
Letter 51 On Baiae and morals
Letter 52 On choosing our teachers
Letter 53 On the faults of the spirit
Letter 54 On asthma and death
Letter 55 On Vatia's villa
Letter 56 On quiet and study
Letter 57 On the trials of travel
Letter 58 On being
Letter 59 On pleasure and joy
Letter 60 On harmful prayers
Letter 61 On meeting death cheerfully
Letter 62 On good company
Letter 63 On grief for lost friends
Letter 64 On the philosopher's task
Letter 65 On the first cause
Volume 2
Letter 66 On various aspects of virtue
Letter 67 On ill-health and endurance
 of suffering
Letter 68 On wisdom and retirement
Letter 69 On rest and restlessness
On the proper time to slip
Letter 70
the cable
Letter 71 On the supreme good
On business as the enemy
Letter 72
of philosophy
Letter 73 On philosophers and kings
On virtue as a refuge from
Letter 74
worldly distractions
Letter 75 On the diseases of the soul
On learning wisdom in old
Letter 76
age
Letter 77 On taking one's own life
Letter 78 On the healing power of the
mind
On the rewards of scientific
Letter 79
discovery
Letter 80 On worldly deceptions
Letter 81 On benefits
Letter 82 On the natural fear of death
Letter 83 On drunkenness
Letter 84 On gathering ideas
Letter 85 On some vain syllogisms
Letter 86 On Scipio's villa
Some arguments in favour
Letter 87
of the simple life
On liberal and vocational
Letter 88
studies
Letter 89 On the parts of philosophy
On the part played by
Letter 90 philosophy in the progress
of man
On the lesson to be drawn
Letter 91
from the burning of Lyons
Letter 92 On the happy life
Volume 3
On the quality, as
Letter 93 contrasted with the length,
of life
Letter 94 On the value of advice
On the usefulness of basic
Letter 95
principles
Letter 96 On facing hardships
 Letter 97 On the degeneracy of the
age
Letter 98 On the fickleness of fortune
On consolation to the
Letter 99
bereaved
Letter 100 On the writings of Fabianus
On the futility of planning
Letter 101
ahead
On the intimations of our
Letter 102
immortality
On the dangers of
Letter 103 association with our fellow-
men
On care of health and peace
Letter 104
of mind
Letter 105 On facing the world with
confidence
Letter 106 On the corporeality of virtue
On obedience to the
Letter 107
universal will
On the approaches to
Letter 108
philosophy
On the fellowship of wise
Letter 109
men
Letter 110 On true and false riches
On the vanity of mental
Letter 111
gymnastics
On reforming hardened
Letter 112
sinners
Letter 113 On the vitality of the soul
 and its attributes
On style as a mirror of
Letter 114
character
Letter 115 On the superficial blessings
Letter 116 On self-control
On real ethics as superior to
Letter 117
syllogistic subtleties
On the vanity of place-
Letter 118
seeking
On nature as our best
Letter 119
provider
Letter 120 More about virtue
Letter 121 On instinct in animals
On darkness as a veil for
Letter 122
wickedness
Letter 123 On the conflict between
pleasure and virtue
On the true good as
Letter 124
attained by reason
Appendix
Index of
proper
names
Subject
index

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