Seneca the Younger

Who was Seneca the Younger?

Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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 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. His father was Seneca the Elder and his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, called Gallio in the Bible.

Famous Quotes:

• We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
• Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
• Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
• Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
• It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
• Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
• A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
• Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
• You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.