Authors starting with S
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC - AD 65) -
Ancestry: Rome, Italy
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. He was later forced to commit suicide for complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate this last of the Julio-Claudian emperors; however, he may have been innocent.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesita...
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity....
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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