Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"“To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.”"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Letters from a Stoic
"“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”"
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Letters from a Stoic
"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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