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Seneca: Selected Dialogues
Free material for Seneca: On the Shortness of Life complete, a line on every one of the seventy-nine chapters, the working terms on one sheet, and four ways into the dialogues.
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On the Shortness of Life
PDF · US Letter · 5 pagesSeneca's most famous essay, complete and unabridged, in Aubrey Stewart's 1889 translation. Twenty chapters on why life is not short and we are simply wasteful with it.
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PDF · US Letter · 3 pagesSeneca wrote no headings; the chapter numbers were added by later editors and tell you nothing. A line for each of the seventy-nine, so you can find a passage again.
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PDF · US Letter · 1 pageThe fourteen words Seneca uses technically and plain English hides — happy, virtue, indifferent, leisure, the wise man — each with the Latin and where to find it.
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PDF · US Letter · 1 pageWhere to start depending on why you picked Seneca up — including the one for readers who want to know whether he can be trusted.
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About this material
Seneca died in 65 and Aubrey Stewart, whose translation this is, died in 1918, so the text on these sheets is in the public domain everywhere (source: Project Gutenberg #64576). The argument map, the glossary and the reading paths are Valice Press's own writing.