“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
“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
“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
“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
“The amount of life we truly live is small. For our existence on Earth is not Life, but merely Time.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“For it is dangerous to attach one's self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is… — 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
“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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
