Letters · c. AD 65
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Volume I (Letters 1–65)
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
Translated by Richard M. Gummere (1917)
The first sixty-five of the letters Seneca wrote in his last years to his friend Lucilius, then procurator in Sicily: short essays in Stoic practice on time, friendship, death, anger, wealth, retirement and the philosopher's daily discipline.
Contents · 65 parts
- Letter I. On Saving Time5 paragraphs
- Letter II. On Discursiveness in Reading3 paragraphs
- Letter III. On True and False Friendship2 paragraphs
- Letter IV. On the Terrors of Death5 paragraphs
- Letter V. The Philosopher’s Mean4 paragraphs
- Letter VI. On Sharing Knowledge5 paragraphs
- Letter VII. On Crowds5 paragraphs
- Letter VIII. On the Philosopher’s Seclusion13 paragraphs
- Letter IX. On Philosophy and Friendship12 paragraphs
- Letter X. On Living to Oneself4 paragraphs
- Letter XI. On the Blush of Modesty3 paragraphs
- Letter XII. On Old Age8 paragraphs
- Letter XIII. On Groundless Fears9 paragraphs
- Letter XIV. On the Reasons for Withdrawing from the World9 paragraphs
- Letter XV. On Brawn and Brains5 paragraphs
- Letter XVI. On Philosophy, the Guide of Life4 paragraphs
- Letter XVII. On Philosophy and Riches4 paragraphs
- Letter XVIII. On Festivals and Fasting11 paragraphs
- Letter XIX. On Worldliness and Retirement5 paragraphs
- Letter XX. On Practising What You Preach7 paragraphs
- Letter XXI. On the Renown Which My Writings Will Bring You14 paragraphs
- Letter XXII. On the Futility of Half-Way Measures7 paragraphs
- Letter XXIII. On the True Joy Which Comes from Philosophy5 paragraphs
- Letter XXIV. On Despising Death16 paragraphs
- Letter XXV. On Reformation3 paragraphs
- Letter XXVI. On Old Age and Death4 paragraphs
- Letter XXVII. On the Good Which Abides3 paragraphs
- Letter XXVIII. On Travel as a Cure for Discontent8 paragraphs
- Letter XXIX. On the Critical Condition of Marcellinus4 paragraphs
- Letter XXX. On Conquering the Conqueror10 paragraphs
- Letter XXXI. On Siren Songs7 paragraphs
- Letter XXXII. On Progress3 paragraphs
- Letter XXXIII. On the Futility of Learning Maxims7 paragraphs
- Letter XXXIV. On a Promising Pupil3 paragraphs
- Letter XXXV. On the Friendship of Kindred Minds2 paragraphs
- Letter XXXVI. On the Value of Retirement6 paragraphs
- Letter XXXVII. On Allegiance to Virtue4 paragraphs
- Letter XXXVIII. On Quiet Conversation2 paragraphs
- Letter XXXIX. On Noble Aspirations2 paragraphs
- Letter XL. On the Proper Style for a Philosopher’s Discourse8 paragraphs
- Letter XLI. On the God Within Us5 paragraphs
- Letter XLII. On Values6 paragraphs
- Letter XLIII. On the Relativity of Fame2 paragraphs
- Letter XLIV. On Philosophy and Pedigrees2 paragraphs
- Letter XLV. On Sophistical Argumentation8 paragraphs
- Letter XLVI. On a New Book by Lucilius3 paragraphs
- Letter XLVII. On Master and Slave13 paragraphs
- Letter XLVIII. On Quibbling as Unworthy of the Philosopher9 paragraphs
- Letter XLIX. On the Shortness of Life10 paragraphs
- Letter L. On Our Blindness and its Cure6 paragraphs
- Letter LI. On Baiae and Morals5 paragraphs
- Letter LII. On Choosing Our Teachers8 paragraphs
- Letter LIII. On the Faults of the Spirit9 paragraphs
- Letter LIV. On Asthma and Death3 paragraphs
- Letter LV. On Vatia’s Villa6 paragraphs
- Letter LVI. On Quiet and Study13 paragraphs
- Letter LVII. On the Trials of Travel3 paragraphs
- Letter LVIII. On Being29 paragraphs
- Letter LIX. On Pleasure and Joy14 paragraphs
- Letter LX. On Harmful Prayers2 paragraphs
- Letter LXI. On Meeting Death Cheerfully2 paragraphs
- Letter LXII. On Good Company1 paragraph
- Letter LXIII. On Grief for Lost Friends8 paragraphs
- Letter LXIV. On the Philosopher’s Task7 paragraphs
- Letter LXV. On the First Cause8 paragraphs