Quotes About Seneca

That grief is light which can take counsel.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time

It was an high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that the good things, which belong to prosperity, are to be wished; but the good things, that belong to adversity, are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia.

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 the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it. But even this wears off in time. What

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

A ESTRATÉGIA BARBELL DE SÊNECA Isso nos leva à solução

Lúcio Aneu Sêneca foi um filósofo que por acaso era a pessoa mais abastada do Império Romano, em parte graças a sua esperteza comercial, em parte por ter atuado como conselheiro do extravagante imperador

How void of reason are men, said Seneca, to make distant evils present by reflections, and to take pains before death to lose all the joys of life.

There is nothing that the busy man is less busy with than living; there is nothing harder to learn." –Seneca

The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long.»

The best actors in the world, either for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral, scene individable, or poem unlimited. Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. For the law of writ and the liberty, these are the only men. Polonius

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

Or as Seneca expresses it, in the Letters to Lucilius: 'You must dispense with these two things: fear of the future, and the recollection of ancient ills. The latter no longer concerns me, the former has yet to concern me.

El hombre sólo vale por lo que sabe. Saber es poder. Los sabios educan con el ejemplo, y nada hay que conquiste al espíritu humano más profundamente que el ejemplo (...) Socrates, filósofo griego, afirmaba con el peso con el peso de la autoridad enorme: "Sólo es útil el conocimiento que nos hace mejores". Séneca, otro pensador famoso, decía incrédulo: "¿Qué importa saber qué es una línea recta, si no se sabe lo que es la rectitud?".

According to Suetonius, Vespasian continued his down-to-earth line in self-deprecating wit right up until his last words: 'Oh dear, I think I'm becoming a god …' The whole process of becoming, or not becoming, a god is the theme of a long skit probably written in the mid 50s CE by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As Seneca put it: 'The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.

As Francis Bacon remarked, quoting from a speech by the Stoic philosopher Seneca, "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.