Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind which receives them has the right attitudes. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “All men wish to be happy…”
All men wish to be happy, but are dull at perceiving exactly what it is that makes life happy. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “The wretched hasten to hear…”
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible…”
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “They who have light in themselves…”
They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “I will have care of being a slave to myself…”
I will have care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a humiliating, and the heaviest of all servitudes. Liberty is maintained by moderate desires. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “Philosophy is the art and law of life…”
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the target at any distance. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “Fortune dreads the brave.”
Fortune dreads the brave. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “Every night we should call ourselves to account…”
Every night we should call ourselves to account: “What weakness have I overcome today? What passions opposed? What temptations resisted? What virtue acquired?” Our weaknesses will decrease of themselves if they are brought every day to the light. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)
Seneca Quote – “The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation…”
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depends upon the future. We let go of the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance — and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. Seneca (4 B.C.E. – 65 A.D.)