Seneca the Younger
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To be angry with a man is to hate him; to hate him is to wish him harm; but to wish him well, even if he has done you harm, is the mark of a great mind.
— Seneca, On Anger (De Ira) 2.34.5 (translated by John W. Basore)
Seneca the Younger
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist (c. 4 BCE–65 CE)
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Lived -4–65, aged 69
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A philosopher who preached Stoic virtue while advising the most volatile emperor in Roman history — until Nero forced him to open his veins. The contradiction between Seneca's essays on restraint and his proximity to power has made him either history's greatest hypocrite or its most pragmatic moralist, depending on who's reading.
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Born around 4 BC in Roman Spain, Seneca trained in rhetoric and philosophy before exile to Corsica in AD 41 under Claudius. Recalled in 49, he became tutor to the teenage Nero, then advisor when the boy took the throne in 54. For five years he and the praetorian prefect Burrus ran a competent government, but as Nero's grip loosened, Seneca's influence drained away. In 65 he was implicated — possibly falsely — in a conspiracy to kill the emperor and ordered to commit suicide, which he did with the Stoic composure that later painters couldn't resist. His twelve essays and 124 letters became one…
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