"arma non servant modum; nec temperari facile nec reprimi potest stricti ensis ira; bella delectat cruor."
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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