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Seneca’s tragedies, essays, and letters share a keen focus on the processes of making sophisticated ethical and moral choices. To this concern, Seneca brings a terse and pointed style.

Quotations by Seneca the Younger As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit. Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Roman statesman, philosopher, playwright (Lucius Annaeus Seneca).

Seneca the Younger was a Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. Although generally considered inferior to their corresponding Greek dramas, his tragedies (essentially the only surviving specimens of Latin tragic drama) had a profound influence on the development of the tragic form in later times, particularly in the age of Racine and Shakespeare.

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Seneca The Younger — The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the gift is acknowledged; it is the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that is weighed. — Seneca the Younger, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, no. 81, sect. 6; translation from Tochi Omenukor Words of a Woman (New York: Writer's Club Press, 2002) p. 15.

Dialogues and Essays Seneca John Davie and Tobias Reinhardt Reinhardt Oxford World's Classics. The fullest translation of Seneca's treatises (dialogues and essays) in print, showing the range of Seneca's philosophical interests in its most accessible form.

Natural Questions I Book I Lights In The Sky 1. Preface 1. Lucilius, my good friend, the great difference between philosophy and other studies is matched, I think, by the equally great difference in philosophy itself, between that branch which deals with man and that which deals with the gods.

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Seneca's father was a writer known as Seneca the Elder. Seneca's mother was called Helvia. Seneca often lived in the city of Rome. He died by suicide in year 65. During the reign of Roman emperor Claudius, Seneca was sent in exile to the island of Corsica for nine years. This act was caused by Messalina who was the wife of Claudius.

Seneca the Younger. 5.6K likes. A page dedicated to Seneca, Stoicism, and the eclectic nature of Seneca's Stoic philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 B.C.E.—65 C.E.) The ancient Roman philosopher Seneca was a Stoic who adopted and argued largely from within the framework he inherited from his Stoic predecessors. His Letters to Lucilius have long been widely read Stoic texts. Seneca’s texts have many aims: he writes to exhort readers to philosophy, to encourage them to continue study, to articulate his.