Stoicism Quote by Nicholas Carr

“No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.’ Seneca (c. 4 BCE to 65 AD)”

— Julian Baggini

“As Seneca put it: ‘The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.”

— Michael Foley

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that…

— Francis Bacon

Seneca's virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as…

— Michel de Montaigne

“The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.” — Seneca”

— Paul Jun

“Leisure without study is death—a tomb for the living person.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 82.4”

— Ryan Holiday

“Death lies heavy upon one who, known exceedingly well by all, dies unknown to himself.” —SENECA, THYESTES,”

— Ryan Holiday

“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men that were…

— Michel de Montaigne

I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I…

— Anonymous

“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the…

— Herman Melville

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for…

— Ronald Reagan

“philosophy of Marcus Aurelius and some of the work of Seneca.”

— Robin S. Sharma