L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits

On Benefits is a first-century work by Seneca the Younger comprising seven books forming part of a series of moral essays. Seneca's philosophical explorations included providence, steadfastness, the happy life, anger, leisure, tranquility, the brevity of life, gift-giving, forgiveness, and treatises on natural phenomena. He writes of the attributes of gratitude and generosity over scrupulousness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist. He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero.