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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Lucius Annaeus Seneca quotes

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Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Indeed the state of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but the most wretched are those who are toiling not even at their own preoccupations, but must regulate their sleep by another's, and their walk by another's pace, and obey orders in those freest of all things, loving and hating. If such people want to know how short their lives are, let them reflect how small a portion is their own. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it? A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not,... Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Let no one,' I say, 'who will make me no worthy return for such a loss rob me of a single day; let my mind be fixed upon itself, let it cultivate itself, let it busy itself with nothing outside, nothing that looks towards an umpire; let it love the tranquillity that is remote from public and private concern. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Love in its essence is spiritual fire."
Love in its essence is spiritual fire. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is unshaken confidence... men gather together that which causes worry. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "If you wished to be loved, love."
If you wished to be loved, love. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "Love of bustle is not industry."
Love of bustle is not industry. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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