4 BCE–65 CE · Rome
Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a statesman, playwright and the wealthiest philosopher of his age, tutor and later advisor to the emperor Nero. His Letters to Lucilius read like a friend writing to a friend about the real problems of a life: time, money, fear, anger, grief and how to die well. Ordered by Nero to take his own life, he met the end with the composure he had spent decades writing about.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca — Letters to Lucilius, 13
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