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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known as Seneca the Younger or simply Seneca /ˈsɛnɪkə/; c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman,dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
He was a tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, some sources state that he may have been innocent. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan.
_It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
_Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
_As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
_No man was ever wise by chance.
_It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
_When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
_Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
_Life, if well lived, is long enough.
_No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
_For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
_The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
_To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
_Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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