Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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(4-65)
Essays by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Those things which are goods produce confidence, but riches produce shamelessness.
I am ashamed to say it; but we worship that which is honourable only in so far as we have time to spare.
A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.
We have become so luxurious that we will have nothing but precious stones to walk upon.
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Essayists
Alphabetical
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Barbellion, W. N. P. (1889-1919)
Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)
Benson, Arthur (1862-1925)
Bird, Isabella (1831-1904)
Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)
Browne, Thomas (1605-1682)
Burney, Fanny (1752-1840)
Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Chesterton, G. K. (1874-1936)
Chudleigh, Mary (1656-1710)
Clinton, Elizabeth (1575-1638)
Colton, Charles (1780-1832)
Cooper, Anna Julia (1858-1964)
Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813-1894)
Cornwallis, William (1579-1614)
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Culpeper, Thomas (1626-1697)
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)
Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Far, Sui Sin (1865-1914)
Felltham, Owen (1602-1668)
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)
Goldsmith, Oliver (1735-1774)
Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920)
Hamilton, Gail (1838-1896)
Harrison, Jane Ellen (1850-1928)
Haywood, Eliza (1693-1756)
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Howell, James (1594-1666)
Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
Hume, David (1711-1776)
Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)
Hyde, Edward (1609-1674)
Jacks, L. P. (1860-1955)
Jacobs, Harriet (1813-1897)
Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Kenko, Yoshida (1283-1350)
Kirkland, Caroline (1801-1864)
Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)
Lee, Vernon (1856-1935)
Marquis, Don (1878-1937)
Martin, Edward Sanford (1856-1939)
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)
Meynell, Alice (1847-1922)
Milne, A. A. (1882-1956)
Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Morley, Christopher (1890-1957)
Morris, Elisabeth (1870-1964)
Osler, William (1849-1919)
Plato, Ann (1820-?)
Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950)
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4-65)
Smith, Alexander (1830-1867)
Steele, Richard (1672-1729)
Stein, Edith (1891-1942)
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Temple, William (1628-1699)
Tomlinson, H. M. (1873-1958)
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938)
Chronological
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (4-65)
Kenko, Yoshida (1283-1350)
Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)
Clinton, Elizabeth (1575-1638)
Cornwallis, William (1579-1614)
Howell, James (1594-1666)
Felltham, Owen (1602-1668)
Browne, Thomas (1605-1682)
Hyde, Edward (1609-1674)
Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667)
Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673)
Culpeper, Thomas (1626-1697)
Temple, William (1628-1699)
Chudleigh, Mary (1656-1710)
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)
Steele, Richard (1672-1729)
Haywood, Eliza (1693-1756)
Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)
Hume, David (1711-1776)
Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Goldsmith, Oliver (1735-1774)
More, Hannah (1745-1833)
Burney, Fanny (1752-1840)
Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849)
Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864)
Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Colton, Charles (1780-1832)
Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)
De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859)
Kirkland, Caroline (1801-1864)
Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)
Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813-1894)
Jacobs, Harriet (1813-1897)
Plato, Ann (1820-?)
Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825-1895)
Smith, Alexander (1830-1867)
Bird, Isabella (1831-1904)
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
Howells, William Dean (1837-1920)
Hamilton, Gail (1838-1896)
Meynell, Alice (1847-1922)
Osler, William (1849-1919)
Harrison, Jane Ellen (1850-1928)
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950)
Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
Lee, Vernon (1856-1935)
Martin, Edward Sanford (1856-1939)
Cooper, Anna Julia (1858-1964)
Jerome, Jerome K. (1859-1927)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935)
Jacks, L. P. (1860-1955)
Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920)
Benson, Arthur (1862-1925)
Bly, Nellie (1864-1922)
Far, Sui Sin (1865-1914)
Belloc, Hilaire (1870-1953)
Morris, Elisabeth (1870-1964)
Tomlinson, H. M. (1873-1958)
Chesterton, G. K. (1874-1936)
Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938)
Marquis, Don (1878-1937)
Milne, A. A. (1882-1956)
Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Barbellion, W. N. P. (1889-1919)
Morley, Christopher (1890-1957)
Stein, Edith (1891-1942)
Women
Bird, Isabella (1831-1904) Bly, Nellie (1864-1922) Burney, Fanny (1752-1840) Cavendish, Margaret (1623-1673) Chudleigh, Mary (1656-1710) Clinton, Elizabeth (1575-1638) Cooper, Anna Julia (1858-1964) Cooper, Susan Fenimore (1813-1894) Edgeworth, Maria (1767-1849) Far, Sui Sin (1865-1914) Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860-1935) Guiney, Louise Imogen (1861-1920) Hamilton, Gail (1838-1896) Harrison, Jane Ellen (1850-1928) Haywood, Eliza (1693-1756) Jacobs, Harriet (1813-1897) Kirkland, Caroline (1801-1864) Lee, Vernon (1856-1935) Martineau, Harriet (1802-1876) Meynell, Alice (1847-1922) More, Hannah (1745-1833) Morris, Elisabeth (1870-1964) Plato, Ann (1820-?) Repplier, Agnes (1855-1950) Stein, Edith (1891-1942) Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797) Zitkala-Ša (1876-1938)
Essays
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On Scipio’s villa
On the diseases of the soul
On the healing power of the mind
Some arguments in favor of the simple life
