We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII, tr. Richard Gummere
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Seneca quotes
c. 4 BC-AD 65 ยท Philosophers and ancient wisdom
Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and author of the Moral Letters to Lucilius.
8 quotes, 8 traced to where Seneca said or wrote them.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter I, tr. Richard Gummere
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter CI, tr. Richard Gummere
When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter LXXI, tr. Richard Gummere
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter II, tr. Richard Gummere
Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter VII, tr. Richard Gummere
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, but because we do not dare, things are difficult.
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter CIV
It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough.
On the Shortness of Life, Ch. 1, tr. John W. Basore