Seneca's Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
It is, perhaps, one of the most pernicious errors of a rash and inconsiderate life, the common ignorance of the world in the matter of exchanging benefits . And this arises from a mistake, partly in the person that we would oblige, and partly in the thing itself. To begin with the latter: A benefit is a good office, done with intention and judgment; that is to say, with a due regard to all the circumstances of what , how , why , when , where , to whom , how much , and the like; or otherwise: It is a voluntary and benevolent action that delights the giver in the comfort it brings to the receiver. It will be hard to draw this subject, either in…
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- ISBN: 978-3-7481-3255-4
- EAN: 9783748132554
- Produktnummer: 29080699
- Verlag: BoD E-Short
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 445 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'875 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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