Of a Happy Life
Seneca · c. 58 AD
25 chapters · 137 pages · Original text
Public domain · Project Gutenberg
Chapters
1
Of a Happy Life, and Wherein it Consists
~6 min · 3 pages
›2
Human Happiness Is Founded Upon Wisdom and Virtue; and First, of Wisdom
~8 min · 4 pages
›3
There Can Be No Happiness Without Virtue
~16 min · 8 pages
›4
Philosophy Is the Guide of Life
~15 min · 8 pages
›5
The Force of Precepts
~14 min · 7 pages
›6
No Felicity Like Peace of Conscience
~8 min · 4 pages
›7
A Good Man Can Never Be Miserable, nor a Wicked Man Happy
~8 min · 4 pages
›8
The Due Contemplation of Divine Providence Is the Certain Cure of All Misfortunes
~13 min · 6 pages
›9
Of Levity of Mind, and Other Impediments of a Happy Life
~13 min · 7 pages
›10
He That Sets Up His Rest Upon Contingencies Shall Never Be Quiet
~10 min · 5 pages
›11
A Sensual Life Is a Miserable Life
~13 min · 7 pages
›12
Avarice and Ambition Are Insatiable and Restless
~11 min · 5 pages
›13
Hope and Fear Are the Bane of Human Life
~7 min · 4 pages
›14
It Is According to the True or False Estimate of Things That We Are Happy or Miserable
~6 min · 4 pages
›15
The Blessings of Temperance and Moderation
~15 min · 7 pages
›16
Constancy of Mind Gives a Man Reputation, and Makes Him Happy in Despite of All Misfortune
~17 min · 8 pages
›17
Our Happiness Depends in a Great Measure Upon the Choice of Our Company
~7 min · 4 pages
›18
The Blessings of Friendship
~8 min · 4 pages
›19
He That Would Be Happy Must Take an Account of His Time
~13 min · 6 pages
›20
Happy Is the Man That May Choose His Own Business
~11 min · 6 pages
›21
The Contempt of Death Makes All the Miseries of Life Easy to Us
~16 min · 8 pages
›22
Consolations Against Death, from the Providence and the Necessity of it
~9 min · 5 pages
›23
Against Immoderate Sorrow for the Death of Friends
~10 min · 5 pages
›24
Consolation Against Banishment and Bodily Pain
~7 min · 4 pages
›25
Poverty to a Wise Man Is Rather a Blessing Than a Misfortune
~8 min · 4 pages
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