Quotes about Seneca

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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so — we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so — we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia . — Seneca
Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia . — Seneca
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction) — Seneca
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction) — Seneca
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believ — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Did I not feel that the time has come for the questions of women's wrongs to be laid before the public? Did I not believ — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I m — Charlotte Eriksson
I am clumsy, drop glasses and get drunk on Monday afternoons. I read Seneca and can recite Shakespeare by heart, but I m — Charlotte Eriksson
This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of — Diane Chamberlain, Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
This indignation builds up an accumulation of anger over the many ways I am being reminded by the system then and now of — Diane Chamberlain, Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole — Seneca
We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole — Seneca
To expect punishment is to suffer it — and to earn it is to expect it.
To expect punishment is to suffer it — and to earn it is to expect it.
Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just — Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just — Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
It is uncertain where Death will await you — there expect it everywhere.
It is uncertain where Death will await you — there expect it everywhere.
...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face qui — Seneca
...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face qui — Seneca
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. — Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium: Latin Text
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. — Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium: Latin Text
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within. — Seneca
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within. — Seneca