It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
- SenecaS
Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, playwright and adviser to the emperor Nero, who eventually ordered him to take his own life. He is best known for the Letters to Lucilius and the essay On the Shortness of Life, in which he writes about time, mortality and his own failings plainly and without ornament. His work has stayed in circulation almost without interruption for two millennia.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
- SenecaWhile we teach, we learn.
- SenecaHe who is brave is free.
- SenecaWe suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
- SenecaBegin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
- SenecaNo man was ever wise by chance.
- SenecaWherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- SenecaAs long as you live, keep learning how to live.
- SenecaAssociate with people who are likely to improve you.
- SenecaIt is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- SenecaLife is long if you know how to use it.
- SenecaSometimes even to live is an act of courage.
- SenecaNothing is ours, except time.
- SenecaTrue happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
- Seneca