"The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. And often this living nobly means that you cannot live long."
About Seneca the Younger
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.
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