How to Do the Right Thing
by Seneca, translated by Robert A. Kaster
Seneca on ethics in action: anger, mercy, conscience, treating others well, selected from the moral essays and letters. Short Princeton edition.
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Three things you will actually use
- Conscience is the judge.
- Mercy strengthens.
- Act, do not just know.
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Read the section on anger.
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Seneca on right action.
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