Seneca on Providence Moderation and Constancy of Mind

THE SECOND OF THREE SLIM VOLUMES Roger L'Estrange staunch royalist author and pamphleteer one-time inmate of Newgate Prison one-time exile one-time Member of Parliament takes up the teaching of the Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca rearranging and paraphrasing the original Latin to shape a unique and engaging work of his own. Although it is not in our power to prevent fortune from sending us perils and trials we may yet meet them with courage free of perturbation and bear them as unkind seasons neither frightened of terrors nor grieving for lost pleasures. This slim volume is the second of three parts of Roger L'Estrange's Seneca of a Happy Life being itself an extract of a much larger whole Seneca's Morals first published in 1678.