About Seneca

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and author of the Moral Letters to Lucilius. (c. 4 BC-AD 65)

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• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter XIII, tr. Richard Gummere
• 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

More quotes on time and productivity

• Patience and time are my warriors, my champions.Leo Tolstoy
• Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering, because you can't take it all in at once.Audrey Hepburn
• Either you run the day or the day runs you.Jim Rohn
• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.Dale Carnegie
• The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.Stephen R. Covey
• More important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.Stephen R. Covey

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