Seneca Quotes
Verified quotes on stoicism, practical philosophy, self-discipline.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested.”
“So it is we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”
“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.”
“For when it has judged that something should be done, reason perseveres in doing it because its going to find nothing better than itself that should cause it to change, it stands firm once its made its decisions.”
“The highest good is that which is honorable. Or, more surprisingly, The sole good is that which is honorable other supposed goods are counterfeit coin.”
“Virtue while defeating adversity is just the same as it is while holding the line in the midst of prosperity yet virtue cannot be made larger or smaller it has but the one size.”
“What is it that is bad about torture or other events we regard as unfavorable? Just this, I think abasing ones mind, bowing down, yielding... None of these can happen to the man of wisdom he stands upright under any load.”
“The wise person vanquishes misfortune through courage, but many who profess wisdom are terrified at times by the most trivial of threats.”
“The mind is the observer and guardian of all our goods and ills. However we treat that spirit, so does the spirit treat us.”