Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
What Chance has made yours is not really yours.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
Letter I - On Saving Time
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
"Cherish some man of high character, and keep him ever before your eyes, living as if he were watching you, and ordering all your actions as if he beheld them." Such, my dear Lucilius, is the counsel of Epicurus;
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
It is equally faulty to trust everyone and to trust no one.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
Still alien is whatever you have gained/By coveting
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
Choose a master whose life, conversation, and soul-expressing face have satisfied you; picture him always to yourself as your protector or your pattern. For we must indeed have someone according to whom we may regulate our characters; you can never straighten that which is crooked unless you use a ruler.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
we men torment ourselves over that which is to come as well as over that which is past.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose.