Fatherhood will put a man through a lot, but it's a tremendous job, the best in the world - even better than playing basketball.
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

