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“Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Do everything as in the eye of another.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every guilty person is his own hangman.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Every reign must submit to a greater reign.”
―Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nationality: Roman

Occupation: Statesman

Bio: Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may have been innocent.

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