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Seneca · Aubrey Stewart
The Dialogues and moral essays: On Anger, On the Shortness of Life, On the Firmness of the Wise Person, On the Happy Life, On Leisure, On Tranquillity of Mind, On Providence, On Clemency, On Benefits, and the satirical Pumpkinification of Claudius — the core of Seneca’s Stoic ethics in prose. Translations chiefly by Aubrey Stewart (1889–1900); public domain. Agrippina the Younger (19/23 AD-59 AD). In 49, Claudius’ fourth wife had Seneca recalled to Rome to tutor her son Nero, then twelve years old. On Claudius’ death in 54, she secured recognition of Nero, rather than Claudius’ son Britannicus, as Emperor. YOU HAVE DEMANDED of me, Novatus, that I should write how anger may be soothed, and it appears to me that you are right in feeling especial fear of this passion, which is above all others hideous and wild: for the others have some alloy of peace and quiet, but this consists wholly in …
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