Seneca the Younger Quotes


We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.


Citations

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Volume I: Epistles 1-65. Translated by Richard M. Gummere, Harvard University Press, 1917, p. 87.

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Seneca the Younger
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  • Nationality: Roman
  • Profession: Philosopher

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.