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.

A Table wherein SENECAES Paradoxes and other Stoicall vanities are set downe, to the end that such as are of weakest iudgement and appre∣hension, may both know, and be more circumspect in iudging of them.

• ...1 IT is a thanks-giuing for a benefit when a man receiueth it with a good will.
• 2 The vertuous child doth more good vnto his father, then hee hath receiued from him.
• 3 Of the names of God, and if so ma∣ny presents as hee bestoweth vs, should bee as many names as a man might bestow vpon him.
• 4 Thou art not to thinke that there are but seuen wandering starres, and that the rest are fixed.
• 5 The wicked and the foolish man is not exempt from any vice.
• 6 Of the power of God.
• 7 That sometimes wee ought not to recompence the good turne which we haue receiued.
• 8 The wise-man satisfieth the rich man for the gold and siluer he offereth him by one refusall.
• 9 Whether a man may giue vnto him∣selfe, and requite himselfe.
• 10 That no man is good, wicked, or vngratefull.
• 11 All men are vngratefull.
• 12 If a wise-man may receiue a bene∣fit, and pleasure from another man, consi∣dering that he is Lord of all things.
• 13 Of diuers sorts of benefits.
• 14 Of the resemblance and difference betwixt God and good Men.
• 15 If Iupiter would fixe his eyes vp∣on the earth, I thinke that he might not see any thing more faire, then Cato was at such time as he slue himselfe.
• 16 Of fatall destinie.
• 17 One and the same necessitie en∣chaineth both Gods and Men.
• 18 Death is in the power and will o•• a man to kill himselfe, and to depart out of this world when hee thinketh fit, without expecting the good will and pleasure of God.
• 19 The rich man cannot be rich except he be poore.
• 20 Remedies against diuers accidents of this life.
• 21 Our infirmities may bee healed, and nature which hath created vs to tend vnto good, aideth vs when wee desire her to be∣come better.
• 22 Why mournest thou? on which side soeuer thou turnest thy selfe, there is the end of thine euills.
• 23 Mercie or compassion is an imper∣fection of the soule of affections.
• 24 If a wise-man pardoneth.
• 25 Of happy Life, and of perfect Ver∣tue.
• 26 Wherein consisteth the soueraigne good.
• 27 The praise of that Epicure who cut his owne throat.
• 28 That a wise-man ought not to in∣termeddle with affaires of estate.
• 29 Of an imperfect and perfect wise-man.
• 30 Death is neither good nor euill, for that may bee either good or euill which is

• something, but that which is nothing, and reduceth all things to nothing, neyther sub∣iecteth vs to good or to euill.
• 31 Of the purgation of the soule aboue vs, where she maketh a little stay to clense her selfe from the spots that remaine in her.
• 32 Of the end of the world, and of the resolution of soules into their auncient ele∣ments.
• 33 Of the creator of all things, and of the immutable succession of things that are enchained the one within the other.
• 34 Death is not a punishment, but the ordinance of nature.
• 35 Iupiter after the consummation of the world, all the gods being deriued into one, and nature reposing her selfe a little, shall content himselfe with himselfe, and shall gouerne his thoughts.
• 36 It is a great misery to be contrai¦ned to liue, it is no constraint to be constrai∣ned to liue; there is no man that may be hindered from ••orsaking this life.
• 37 Dying we are worse then we were when we were borne.
• 38 Of two sorts of Wise-men.
• 39 God dwelleth in euery good man, but we know not what God he is.
• 40 Thinkest thou for the present what I call a good man? He which is imperfect∣ly: for the other which is perfectly wise ap∣peareth not but by chance one time in fiue yeares, as the Phaenix and we ought not to be abashed, if the generation of great things requireth a great distance.
• 41 Of the source of disorder which is in the soule.
• 42 The short life of a Wise-man hath as much extent for him as the long life of God. There is likewise something wherein a wise-man marcheth before God, which is that God is wise by the benefite of nature, and not by intention and diligence.
• 43 We deceiue our selues to thinke that life followeth death, when as death had gon before, and life followeth it.
• 44 If the soule of a man being hidden vnder the ruines of a Tower or Mountain, cannot be deliuered from the bodie, nor finde issue, but spreadeth it selfe inconti∣nently thorow all the members, because she hath no free issue.
• 45 If by reason of continuall paine i•• be lawfull for a man to murther himselfe.
• 46 Of perfect vertue in this life.
• 47 Of the equalitie of vertues•• and wherein lieth their difference.
• 48 Of reason and the soueraigne good.
• 49 Of the behauiour of a wise-man in death.
• 50 If it lie in our owne power to dis∣pose of our liues as we please.
• 51 Of the Stoicks wise man.
• 52 Iupiter can doe no more then a wise-man.
• 53 Three sorts of Philosopers.
• 54 Stoicall inductions to perswade a man to murther himselfe.
• 55 The estate of the soule before it en∣tereth into the bodie, and after it hath left it.
• 56 That no man but a wise-man can requite a good turne which is receiued.
• 57 If a wise-man be without passions or no?
• 58 Of happy life and the chiefest good.
• 59 A happie man is perfectly happy.
• 60 Of the golden age and the first men.
• 61 Of the inuention of artes and occu∣pations.
• 62 That the firmity and felicitie of a wise-man (imagined perfect in this pre∣sent life) is in himselfe.
• 63 The soueraigne good is in this life, and cannot receiue increase.
• 64 This world wherein we are contay∣ned, is one, is God, whose members and com∣panions we are.
• 65 A dead man is no more.
• 66 That which we call good is a body.
• 67 Vertues and other things, yea, those accidents which are without subiect and forme, are animals and bodies.
• 68 If it be better to haue moderate af∣fection, or to haue none at all.
• 69 Wisedome is a good thing, to be wise is not.
• 70 Nothing seemeth more dishonest

• then to wish for death. It is in thine owne power to die when thou wilt.
• 71 God is the soule of the world: it is all that which thou seest, and all that which thou seest not.
• 72 Of the vniuersall deluge by water which shall ruine the world.
• 73 Of the end of the world by an vni∣uersall deluge.
• 74 If the heauen turneth and the earth standeth still, or if the heauen is immoue∣able, and the earth turneth. If the heauen falleth continually, vnperceiued because it falleth into that which is infinite.
• 75 Of Comets.
• 76 The nourishment of the flesh is a sa∣uage life and beastly.
• 77 There is nothing honest but that which is good.
• 78 Vertue is sufficient for her selfe, to liue well and happily.
• 79 Sinnes are equall, and vertuous a∣ctions likewise.
• 80 All imprudent men are mad.
• 81 All wise-men are exempt and free: contrariwise, all imprudent men are vici∣ous and slaues.
• 82 No one but a wise-man is rich.
• 83 The summe of certaine dangerous Paradoxes of the Stoickes.