The workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, both morrall and naturall Containing, 1. His bookes of benefites. 2. His epistles. 3. His booke of prouidence. 4. Three bookes of anger. 5. Two bookes of clemencie. 6. His booke of a blessed life. 7. His booke of the tranquilitie of the minde. 8. His booke of the constancie of a wiseman. 9. His booke of the shortnesse of life. 10. Two bookes of consolation to Martia. 11. Three bookes of consolation to Heluia. 12. His booke of consolation to Polibius. 13. His seuen bookes of naturall questions. Translated by Tho. Lodge, D. in Physicke.
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The workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, both morrall and naturall Containing, 1. His bookes of benefites. 2. His epistles. 3. His booke of prouidence. 4. Three bookes of anger. 5. Two bookes of clemencie. 6. His booke of a blessed life. 7. His booke of the tranquilitie of the minde. 8. His booke of the constancie of a wiseman. 9. His booke of the shortnesse of life. 10. Two bookes of consolation to Martia. 11. Three bookes of consolation to Heluia. 12. His booke of consolation to Polibius. 13. His seuen bookes of naturall questions. Translated by Tho. Lodge, D. in Physicke.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
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1614.
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"The workes of Lucius Annæus Seneca, both morrall and naturall Containing, 1. His bookes of benefites. 2. His epistles. 3. His booke of prouidence. 4. Three bookes of anger. 5. Two bookes of clemencie. 6. His booke of a blessed life. 7. His booke of the tranquilitie of the minde. 8. His booke of the constancie of a wiseman. 9. His booke of the shortnesse of life. 10. Two bookes of consolation to Martia. 11. Three bookes of consolation to Heluia. 12. His booke of consolation to Polibius. 13. His seuen bookes of naturall questions. Translated by Tho. Lodge, D. in Physicke." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11899.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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CHAP. XVIII.
I Speake not this for my selfe (for I am drown••d in vices) but fo•• him that alreadie hath gott••n ground. Thou spe••kest, saist thou in one kinde but beleeuest in another. This hath beene repro∣ched by some leud companions, enemies of all good men to Pla∣to, to the Epicure and to Zeno. For all these shewed how wee ought to liue, and not how they themselues liued, I speake of Vertue not of my selfe. When I blame vices I first of all reprooue mine owne, and when I may possibly I will liue as I ough••. This malignitie infected with diuers poysons shall not driue me from my laudable dessignes. This venome which you vomit out against others, and where with you poyson your selues shall not hinder me from praysing that life, according to which I know that I ought to gouerne my selfe, although I gouerne not my selfe in that sort as I ought therein. Your malignitie (I tell you) shall not restraine me from adorning that Vertue, which I follow not, although it be estranged and farre off from me•• Shall I expect that reproach, shall I in any sort restraine her handes which neyther respected Ruti∣lius, nor forbare Cato? Why should not any man in these mens opinion, ••ee ouer rich to whom Demetrius the Cynicke seemed not poore enough? O exact person and aduersarie to all the desires of Nature, so farre as he forbad himselfe to demand those things from the vse whereof he had resolued to abstaine. For he maintaineth that the wiseman wanteth nothing. Markest thou this? he pro∣fessed not the science of Vertue but of pouertie.
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That this re∣proach is not new, That a wiseman in con∣demning other mens vices be∣ginneth with his owne, and hath a desire to mend himselfe•• That we ought patiētly to endure scoffes because the best men haue not es∣caped them.