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Seneca’s Stoic treatise on generosity and gratitude, in a dual-language selection on giving, receiving, and social virtue.
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Seneca’s Stoic treatise on generosity and gratitude, in a dual-language selection on giving, receiving, and social virtue.
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Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do―but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, “On Benefits” (De Beneficiis). James Romm’s splendid new translation of essential selections from this work conveys the heart of Seneca’s argument that generosity and gratitude are amon...
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