De Constantia

De Constantia in publicis malis (On constancy in times of public evil) was a philosophical dialogue published by Justus Lipsius in two books in 1583. The book, modelled after the dialogues of Seneca, was pivotal in establishing an accommodation of Stoicism and Christianity which became known as Neostoicism. De Constantia went through over eighty editions between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

English translations

• Two bookes of constancie, translated by Sir John Stradling, London, 1595
  • ed. with an introduction by Rudolf Kirk, notes by Clayton Morris Hall, 1939
  • ed. with an introduction & revised translation by John Sellars, Bristol Phoenix Press, 2006
• A discourse of constancy: in two books, translated by R. G., Master of Arts Sometimes Of Christ Church In Oxen, 1654
• A discourse of constancy in two books chiefly containing consolations against publick evils, translated by Nathaniel Wanley, 1670

External links

• The first book of De constantia
• The second book of De constantia