Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was the son of Seneca the Elder.
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Native Name:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Alternative Names:
Seneca the Younger
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the Younger Seneca
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Lucio Anneo Seneca
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Annaeus Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
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L. Annæus Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger
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Of course, however, the living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word. You must go to the scene of action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.
You have demanded of me, Novatus, that I should write how anger may be soothed, and it appears to me that you are right in feeling especial fear of this passion, which is above all others hideous and wild: for the others have some alloy of peace and quiet, but this consists wholly in action and the impulse of grief, raging with an utterly inhuman lust for arms, blood and tortures, careless of itself provided it hurts another, rushing upon the very point of the sword, and greedy for revenge even when it drags the avenger to ruin with itself.