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Seneca's Essays Volume I
Source: Lucius Annasus Seneca. Moral Essays. Translated by John
W. Basore. TheLoeb Classical Library. London: W. Heinemann,
1928-1935. 3 vols.: Volume I. Beforeusing any portion of this text
in any theme, essay, research paper, thesis, or dissertation,please
read the disclaimer .Transcription conventions: Page numbers in
angle brackets refer to the edition cited asthe source. The Latin
text, which appears on even-numbered pages, is not included
here.Words or phrases singled out for indexing are marked by plus
signs. In the index,numbers in parent he ses indi ca te how many
times the item appears. A slash followed by asma ll letter or a
number i ndi cates a footn ote at the bottom of the page. Only
notes ofhistorical, p hilosophica l, or literary inter est to a gen
eral reader have been included. I haveallowed Gr eek p assa ges to
sta nd as the scann er r ead the m, in unintelligible strings ofcha
rac ters.
Tab le of Conte nts : ON P RO VIDENC E+ | ON FIRMNESS+ | ON
ANGER+ | ON MERCY+
Index: a mbit ion+ (1) | anger+ (2) | An ge r_vs_reason+ (1) |
Animal_rationis_capax+ (1) |avarice+ (1) | bees+ (1) | cal igo_
mist+ (1) | com mon+ (2) | conscie ntious_objectors+ (1) |Cordelia+
(1) | depravity+ (1) | Douglas+ (1) | effeminacy+ (1) | epilepsy+
(1) | equality+ (1) |fortune+ (1) | fortune_favours_bold+ (1) |
HenV+ (1) | Hotspur+ (1) | injury+ (1) | insanity+ (1) |interests+
(1) | Jesus+ (3) | king_over_himself+ (1) | knowing_self+ (1) |
Lear+ (5) | liberal+ (1)| Liberty+ (1) | Lucy_poem+ (1) | Macbeth+
(1) | Macro_Micro+ (1) | other_cheek+ (1) |Man_of_Mode+ (1) |
manly+ (1) | nil_admirari+ (1) | noblesse_oblige+ (1) | Orig_sin+
(1) |Ovid_Phaeton+ (1) | PlainDealer+ (1) | Prom_Unbound+ (1) |
Prospero+ (8) | rage+ (2) |
rank+ (1) | Regulus+ (1) | Revenge+ (1) | Saeva_indignatio+ (1)
| sentiment+ (1) |servitud e+ (1) | s inful_nature_of_man+ (1) |
social_creature+ (1) | suicide+ (1) |Thou_owest_God_a_death+ (1) |
usurers+ (1) | what_is_is_right+ (1) |whom_the_lord_loveth+ (1) |
woman+ (1) | Yahoo+ (2) | Yeats_to_a_friend+ (1)
THE DIALOGUES OFLUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECABOOK ITO LUCILIUS ON
PROVIDENCE+
Why, though there is a Providence, some Misfortunes befall Good
Men.
You have asked me, Lucilius, why, if a Providence rules the
world, it still happens thatmany evils befall good men. This would
be more fittingly answered in a coherent workdesigned to prove that
a Providence does preside over the universe, and that Godconcerns
himself with us. But since it is your wish that a part be severed
from the whole,and that I refute a single objection while the main
question is left untouched, I shall do so;the task is not
difficult, - I shall be pleading the cause of the gods.
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For the present purpose it is unnecessary to show that this
mighty structure of theworld does not endure without some one to
guard it, and that the assembling and theseparate flight of the
stars above are not due to the workings of chance; that while
bodieswhich owe their motion to accident often fall into disorder
and quickly collide, this swiftrevolution of the heavens, being
ruled by eternal law, goes
ON PROVIDENCE, i. 2-4on unhindered, producing so many things on
land and sea, so many brilliant lights in thesky all shining in
fixed array; that this regularity does not belong to matter moving
atrandom, and that whatever combinations result from chance do not
adjust themselveswith that artistry whereby the earth, the heaviest
in weight, abides immovable and beholdsthe flight of the sky as it
whirls around it, and the seas, flooding a the valleys, soften
theland, and feel no increase from the rivers, and whereby huge
growths spring up from thetiniest seeds. Even the phenomena which
seem irregular and undetermined - I mean
showers and clouds, the stroke of crashing thunderbolts and the
fires that belch from theriven peaks of mountains, tremors of the
quaking ground, and the other disturbanceswhich the turbulent
element in nature sets in motion about the earth, these, no matter
howsuddenly they occur, do not happen without a reason; nay, they
also are the result ofspecial eauses, and so, in like manner, are
those things which seem miraculous byreason of the incongruous
situations in which they are beheld, such as warm waters inthe
midst of the sea- waves,and the expanses of new islands that spring
up in the wideocean. Moreover, if any one observes how the shore is
laid bare as the sea withdraws intoitself, and how within a short
time the same stretch is covered over again, he will supposethat it
is some blind fluctuation which causes the waves now to shrink and
flow inwards,
now to burst forth and in mighty sweep seek their former
resting-place, whereas in factthey increase by degrees, and true to
the hour and the day they approach in propor-
