“There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The amount of life we truly live is small. For our existence on Earth is not Life, but merely Time.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“And what’s so bad about your being deprived of that?... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“we deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“life is not worth living, and there is no limit to our sorrows, if we indulge our fears to the greatest possible… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The happy man, therefore, is he who can make a right judgment in all things: he is happy who in his present… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance; and we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time.… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is regret for the absence of his loved one which causes a mourner to grieve: yet it is clear that this… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Pacuvius, who by long occupancy made Syria his own,8 used to hold a regular burial sacrifice in his own honour, with wine… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Consider the whole world reconnoitre individuals j who is there whose life is not taken up with providing for to morrow Do… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Look back in memory and consider when you ever had a fixed plan, how few days have passed as you had intended,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more ridiculous than a person talking with certitude about the future? Such people devote their energy on creating a… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it… — seneca Copy Share Image
“What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Therefore continually remind yourself, Lucilius, how many ambitions you have attained. When you see many ahead of you, think how many are… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy… — Seneca Copy Share
“the wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say "can," I… — Seneca Copy Share
“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that” — Seneca Copy Share
“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many… — Seneca Copy Share
“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun… — Seneca Copy Share
“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one’s… — Seneca Copy Share
“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself… — Seneca Copy Share
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not… — Seneca Copy Share
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca Copy Share
“we perish because we follow other men's examples: we should be cured of this if we were to disengage ourselves from the herd;” — Seneca Copy Share
“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From whence then… — Seneca Copy Share
“And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source.” — Seneca Copy Share
