Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “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.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, "Seneca the Younger"Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXI: On meeting death cheerfully, line 2.