TO MASTER THE WORST OF FEARS SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (attributed). 

Liber ad Gallione[m] de remediis fortuitorum. 

An extensively annotated copy of a very rare early sixteenth-century edition of this successful tract of moral philosophy.  Whilst its entire manuscript tradition was unanimous in attributing this work to Seneca, and eminent scholars with a profoundly intimate knowledge of Senecan philosophy and style, such as Petrarch and Erasmus, endorsed this attribution, the authorship became disputed in the late Renaissance.  Today it is generally considered a genuine Senecan work, or a collection of his maxims.  Stoicism as a disregard for life’s passing goods and as a remedy against fears, particularly the fear of death, is the message condensed in these pithy, memorable sentences and succinct explanations.