Money Quote by Oliver Burkeman

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but…

— Anonymous

“Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“All cruelty springs from weakness.” -Seneca”

— Clarissa Wild

“Ernest Hemingway wrote that happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing. However, if we are intelligent yet unhappy, then perhaps we are not…

— Giannis Delimitsos

“Seneca describes this in an extraordinary passage, in which he astutely observes that most human suffering relates to rumination about the past or worry…

— Anonymous

“In February 62, Seneca came up against an unalterable reality. Nero ceased to listen to his old tutor, he shunned his company, encouraged slander…

— Alain de Botton

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul…

— Aristotle

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that…

— Frederic William Farrar

“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

We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might have seemed…

— Edward Gibbon

“Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown…

— David W. Jones

“According to Seneca, Chrysippus’ quipped that the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool ‘needs’…

— Anonymous

“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.”

— Seneca

“As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.”

— David Mitchell

Go SENECA BOBCATS!

— Tori