L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits

Lucius Annaeus, 5? BCE-65 Seneca and Aubrey Stewart

No debt is older than a favor. Seneca's On Benefits spends seven books on giving and receiving: what makes a gift generous, how to accept without servility, whether a son can outgive his father or a servant his master. Roman moral philosophy at its most practical and searching. Two thousand years later, gratitude still works exactly the way he says.