Hardship and Happiness

By Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Self-Help

This volume in the University of Chicago Press's complete works of Seneca gathers nine of his shorter prose works in translations by Elaine Fantham, Harry M. Hine, James Ker and Gareth D. Williams. Three consolations, addressed to Marcia, to his mother Helvia and to Polybius, offer comfort in bereavement and exile. Essays including On the Shortness of Life, On Tranquility of Mind, On the Happy Life and On Providence set out Stoic advice on facing adversity and living well.

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• Ryan Holiday: “The other book I give out in such circumstances (someone at my talk in Phoenix was in tears over the loss of a loved one) is Seneca's Hardships and Happiness.”