Seneca on Friendship, Death, and Poverty
Author | : Keith Seddon |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781471035814 |
ISBN-13 | : 1471035816 |
Rating | : 4/5 (816 Downloads) |
Download or read book Seneca on Friendship, Death, and Poverty written by Keith Seddon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE THIRD OF THREE SLIM VOLUMES Roger L'Estrange, staunch royalist, author and pamphleteer, one-time inmate of Newgate Prison, one-time exile, one-time Member of Parliament, takes up the teaching of the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca, rearranging and paraphrasing the original Latin to shape a unique and engaging work of his own. True friendship, based on Stoic principles, provides a certain antidote against all calamities, and even the fear of poverty, the hurt of death, and the lamentations of grief may be turned aside by those who possess a proper philosophy. This third slim volume is the concluding part of Roger L'Estrange's Seneca of a Happy Life, being itself an extract of a much larger whole, Seneca's Morals, first published in 1678.