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On Benefits
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Stoicism · c. 60 CE
Translated by Aubrey Stewart (1887)
7 chapters
Seneca's seven-book treatise on the giving and receiving of kindness — the Stoic philosophy of gratitude, friendship, and what it means to make another person obliged to you.
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Contents
- 1Book I: How a Benefit Ought to Be Given
- 2Book II: How a Benefit Ought to Be Received
- 3Book III: On Ingratitude
- 4Book IV: Benefits and Gratitude as Goods in Themselves
- 5Book V: On Being Outdone in Benefits
- 6Book VI: Whether a Benefit Can Be Taken Back
- 7Book VII: The Truly Wise Man and the Ungrateful
