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What Would Stoics Do

Seneca · c. 4 BCE – 65 CE

On a Happy Life

Translation by Aubrey Stewart (1889) · 30 passages

Addressed to Gallio, Seneca's elder brother. Seneca argues that the happy life consists in virtue and living in agreement with nature, not in pleasure, and answers the charge that philosophers do not live as they preach.

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Edition
L. Annaeus Seneca: Minor Dialogues, together with the dialogue On Clemency (1889) and On Benefits (1887), translated by Aubrey Stewart (Bohn's Classical Library)
Status
Tier A: Public domain in the UK and the US. Translator died 1918: public domain in the UK (life+70) and the US (published 1887–1889).
Attribution
Seneca, Dialogues, tr. Aubrey Stewart (1887–1889). Text: Standard Ebooks (CC0).
Digital text
Standard Ebooks (opens in a new tab) · CC0 1.0 (Standard Ebooks dedicates its own contributions to the public domain)

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