Seneca Biography

Biography

Type: Philosopher, statesman, dramatist

Born: c. 4 BC

Died: AD 65 (aged 68–69)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, often known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature.

He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, some sources state that he may have been innocent. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan.

Seneca Quotes

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and-what will perhaps make you wonder more-it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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