“We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“As to what the future's uncertain lot has in store, why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand… — 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
“Lat, urbes constituit aetas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva. An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times; while fortune is bestowing favors on… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for… — 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
“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.… — 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 day has already begun to lessen. It has shrunk considerably, but yet will still allow a goodly space of time if… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“In protecting their wealth men are tight-fisted, but when it comes to the matter of time, in the case of the one… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You must vie with time's swiftness in the speed of using it, and, as from a torrent that rushes by and will… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Do you think that the man has any thought of mending his ways who counts over his vices as if they were… — 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
“Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind” — 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
“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
