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OF CONTENTS\n\nBOOKI.OF CLEMENCYFOOTNOTES  \nBOOKII.OF CLEMENCYFOOTNOTES  \n# BOOKI.OF CLEMENCY\n\n## CHAPTER I.\n\nI HAVE determined to write a book upon clemency,Nero Caesar,in orderthat I may as it were serve as a mirror to you,and let you see yourselfarriving at the greatest of all pleasures.For although the true enjoyment ofgood deeds consists in the performance of them,and virtues have noadequate reward beyond themselves,still it is worth your while to considerand investigate a good conscience from every point of view,and afterwardsto cast your eyes upon this enormous mass of mankind—quarrelsome,factious,and passionate as they are;likely,if they could throw off the yokeof your government,to take pleasure alike in the ruin of themselves and ofone another —and thus to commune with yourself:—\"Have I of allmankind been chosen and thought fit to perform the office of a god uponearth?I am the arbiter of life and death to mankind:it rests with me todecide what lot and position in life each man possesses:fortune makes useof my mouth to announce what she bestows on each man:cities andnations are moved to joy by my words:no region anywhere can flourishwithout my favour and good will:all these thousands of swords nowrestrained by my authority,would be drawn at a sign from me:it rests withme to decide which tribes shall be utterly exterminated,which shall bemoved into other lands,which shall receive and which shall be deprived ofliberty,what kings shall be reduced to slavery and whose heads shall becrowned,what cities shall be destroyed and what new ones shall befounded.In this position of enormous power I am not tempted to punishmen unjustly by anger,by youthful impulse,by the recklessness and  \nSENECA THE YOUNGER  \ninsolence of men,which often overcomes the patience even of the bestregulated minds,not even that terrible vanity,so common among greatsovereigns,of displaying my power by inspiring terror.My sword issheathed,nay,fixed in its sheath:I am sparing of the blood even of thelowest of my subjects:a man who has nothing else to recommend him,willnevertheless find favour in my eyes because he is a man.I keep harshnessconcealed,but I have clemency always at hand:I watch myself as carefullyas though I had to give an account of my actions to those laws which I havebrought out of darkness and neglect into the light of day.I have beenmoved to compassion by the youth of one culprit,and the age of another:Ihave spared one man because of his great place,another on account of hisinsignificance:when I could find no reason for showing mercy,I have hadmercy upon myself.I am prepared this day,should the gods demand it,torender to them an account of the human race.\"You,Caesar,can boldly saythat everything which has come into your charge has been kept safe,andthat the state has neither openly nor secretly suffered any loss at yourhands.You have coveted a glory which is most rare,and which has beenobtained by no emperor before you,that of innocence.Your remarkablegoodness is not thrown away,nor is it ungratefully or spitefullyundervalued.Men feel gratitude towards you:no one person ever was sodear to another as you are to the people of Rome,whose great andenduring benefit you are.You have,however,taken upon yourself a mightyburden:no one any longer speaks of the good times of the late EmperorAugustus,or the first years of the reign of Tiberius,or proposes for yourimitation any model outside yourself:yours is a pattern reign.This wouldhave been difficult had your goodness of heart not been innate,but merelyadopted for a time;for no one can wear a mask for long,and fictitiousqualities soon give place to true ones.Those which are founded upon truth,and which,so to speak,grow out of a solid basis,only become greater'andbetter as time goes on.The Roman people were in a state of great hazar","cbCailVRgHeBuVvI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailVRgHeBuVvI","pdf",2707224,44,"English","# TABLE OF CONTENTS\n## BOOK I. 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