Seneca the Younger Quotes
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Epistles, Volume II: Epistles 66-92. Translated by Richard M. Gummere, Loeb Classical Library 76, Harvard University Press, 1920, p. 61.
This quote is often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. It has not been found in any of his writings. The use of a chiasmus (a rhetorical device reversing word order in successive clauses) is very uncharacteristic of Abraham Lincoln's speech or writing. Quote Investigator (QI) credits {Edward J. Stieglitz} as the originator (although its possible his advertising copywriter was the source).
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (/ˈsɛnɪkə/; c. 4 BC – AD 65), usually known as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist from the Silver Age of Latin literature.
