Cosmos on Natural Questions: Chapter epigraph: "Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate... —Seneca, Natural Questions, Book 7"
Gargantua and Pantagruel on De Clementia: “This detestable saying, of which Cicero, lib. De Finib., and Seneca, lib. 2, De Clementia, make mention, is ascribed to the Emperor Tiberius by Dion Nicaeus and Suidas.”
Don Juan on Hercules Furens: “That prodigy, Miss Araminta Smith (Who at sixteen translated 'Hercules Furens' Into as furious English), with her best look,”
The Anatomy of Melancholy on Letters to Lucilius: “great-witted Aristotle's works are as much authentical to them as Scriptures, subtle Seneca's Epistles as canonical as St. Paul's, Pindarus' Odes as good as the Prophet David's Psalms, Epictetus' Enchiridion equivalent to wise Solomon's Proverbs.”