Quotes by Seneca

Seneca the Younger was a Stoic philosopher, a successful playwright, one of the richest men in Rome, and for several years the tutor and adviser of the emperor Nero — a set of facts his critics have enjoyed for two thousand years. His letters to Lucilius are practical philosophy: on time, on anger, on how to be poor while wealthy. Nero eventually ordered him to kill himself, and he did so with some ceremony. He writes about death more convincingly than most, having rehearsed it.