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“Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.”

— Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, Letter 61 (translation by R. M. Gummere)

About Seneca

4 BC – 65

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. His letters and essays on Stoic philosophy remain some of antiquity's most readable and practically applicable works.

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