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
• 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

More quotes on time and productivity

• Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.Warren Buffett
• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Warren Buffett
• Time is the scarcest resource, and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.Peter Drucker
• There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.Peter Drucker
• We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.Arianna Huffington
• You're not going to get rich renting out your time.Naval Ravikant

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