Seneca

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca) (ca. 4 BC – 65 AD) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may have been innocent.

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Average rating: 4.01 · 2,636 ratings · 241 reviews · 226 distinct works

	Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, Robin Campbell (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 883 ratings — published 65 — 40 editions	My rating:
	On the Shortness of Life by Seneca, C.D.N. Costa (Translator), C. D. N. Costa (Translation) 4.00 avg rating — 564 ratings — published 56 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca, E.F. Watling (Translator), E. F. Watling (Introduction) 3.77 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Medea by Seneca, Frederick Ahl (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1956 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Phaedra 3.50 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1986 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Moral Essays, Volume I: de Providentia. de Constantia. de IRA. de Clementia 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1917 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Epistles 1-65 by Seneca, Richard M. Gummere (Translator), John W. Basore (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1917	My rating:
	Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia by Seneca, John G. Fitch 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Dialogues and Letters by Seneca, C.D.N. Costa (Translator), C. D. N. Costa (Translation) 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Seneca: Apocolocyntosis by Seneca, P.T. Eden (Commentator) 3.58 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 54 — 18 editions	My rating:

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“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
― Seneca

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“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The gratest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
― Seneca

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