✦
Thinker · 4 BCE – 65 CE

Seneca

Stoic statesman, playwright, Nero's tutor. Wrote letters about anger, time, and how to die well. When ordered to take his own life, he opened his veins with composure.

Contributions
  • Letters on Stoic practice
  • Treatise On the Shortness of Life
Words that traveled
"
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
— Seneca
"
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
— Seneca
"
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.
— Seneca