Seneca the Elder

Marcus Annaeus Seneca (54 BC – c. AD 39), often known as Seneca the Rhetorician or Seneca the Elder, was a Roman authority on the history and techniques of oratory. He was father of Seneca the Younger and grandfather of Lucan.

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"Magni pectoris est inter secunda moderatio."

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"Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia."

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"Iniquum est conlapsis manum non porrigere; commune hoc ius generis humani est."

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"Quædam iura non scripta, sed omnibus scriptis certiora sunt."

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"Vivamus, moriendum est."

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"Quid enim refert, quantum habeas? multo illud plus est, quod non habes."

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"Si vis amari, ama."

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"He that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all mankind."

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"Omnia mors poscit. Lex est, non poena, perire."

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