Who is Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ˈsɛnɪkə/; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Hispano-Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist from the Silver Age of Latin literature.Seneca was born in Cordoba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island of Corsica under emperor Claudius, but was allowed to return in 49 to become a tutor to Nero. When Nero became emperor in 54, Seneca became his advisor and, together with the praetorian prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, provided competent government for the first five years of ...
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- Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
- Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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- Senecabest: “the sun also shines on the wicked.” ― lucius annaeus seneca
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- Vagrantcow: "religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - lucius annaeus seneca (3 bce - 65 ce)
