Seneca the Younger

Seneca the Younger

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Biography

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, a dramatist, and in one work, a satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

"Quaeris Alcidae parem? Nemo est nisi ipse."

Seneca the Younger

"rursus prosperum ac felix scelus virtus vocatur; sontibus parent boni, ius est in armis, opprimit leges timor."

Seneca the Younger

"inveniet viam aut faciet."

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"Iniqua raro maximis virtutibus fortuna parcit ; nemo se tuto diu periculis offerre tam crebris potest; quem saepe transit casus, aliquando invenit."

Seneca the Younger

"qui genus iactat suum, aliena laudat."

Seneca the Younger

"ars prima regni est posse invidiam pati."

Seneca the Younger

"arma non servant modum; nec temperari facile nec reprimi potest stricti ensis ira; bella delectat cruor."

Seneca the Younger

"quaeritur belli exitus, non causa."

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"Cogi qui potest nescit mori."

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"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via."

Seneca the Younger

"quae fuit durum pati, meminisse dulce est."

Seneca the Younger

"Qui non vetat peccare cum possit, iubet."

Seneca the Younger

"Mortem misericors saepe pro vita dabit."

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"Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest."

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"Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil."

Seneca the Younger

"Iniqua nunquam regna perpetuo manent."

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"Cui prodest scelus, is fecit."

Seneca the Younger

"Curae leues locuntur, ingentes stupent."

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"scelere velandum est scelus."

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"Mens impudicam facere, non casus, solet."

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"mens regnum bona possidet."

Seneca the Younger

"peior est bello timor ipse belli."

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"Quem mihi dabis qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat, qui diem aestimet, qui intellegat se cotidie mori?"

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"In hoc enim fallimur, quod mortem prospicimus: magna pars eius iam praeterit; quidquid aetatis retro est mors tenet."

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"Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by."

Seneca the Younger