"Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
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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