“It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.” — Seneca Good deal Copy Share Image
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.” — Seneca Necessary Copy Share Image
“The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.” — Seneca Power Copy Share Image
“We must indulge the mind and from time to time allow it the leisure which is its food and strength.” — Seneca Indulge Copy Share Image
“Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.” — Seneca Youthful Copy Share Image
“det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus - the one who needs pardon should readily grant it” — Seneca Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.” — Seneca Company Copy Share Image
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.” — Seneca Poverty Copy Share Image
“We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom.” — Seneca Claim Copy Share Image
A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor — Seneca Executions Copy Share Image
“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor,… — Seneca Money Copy Share Image
“[I]ndulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. It needs to be treated somewhat strictly to prevent it from… — Seneca Good health Copy Share Image
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only… — Seneca Leisure Copy Share Image
“You will notice that the most powerful and highly stationed men let drop remarks in which they pray for leisure, praise it,… — Seneca Blessings Copy Share Image
“Think your way through difficulties: harsh conditions can be softened, restricted ones can be widened, and heavy ones can weigh less on… — Seneca Harsh Conditions Copy Share Image
There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and… — Seneca Humor Copy Share Image
“The man who looks for the morrow without worrying over it knows a peaceful independence and a happiness beyond all others. Whoever… — Seneca Every day Copy Share Image
“Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry? Prosperity is not only greedy, but it also lies exposed to… — Seneca Greed 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… — Seneca A-life-worth-living 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 Life Copy Share Image
“No prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant… — Seneca Inspirational 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 Absence 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 Life Copy Share Image
“We should not manifest surprise at any sort of condition into which we are born, and which should be lamented by no… — Seneca Equal Copy Share Image
“Indeed the state of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but the most wretched are those who are toiling not even at… — Seneca Preoccupied 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 Appreciation Copy Share Image
“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)” — Seneca Book Copy Share Image
“I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.” — Seneca Poor Copy Share Image
Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love. — Seneca Friendship Copy Share Image
“No he nacido para un sólo rincón; mi patria es todo el mundo visible” — Seneca Amor Copy Share Image
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