Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
In like manner you should rebuke these two kinds of men, – both those who always lack repose, and those who are always in repose.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
Letter VI - On Sharing Knowledge
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
So you should always read standard authors; and when you crave a change, fall back upon those whom you read before.
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
What Chance has made yours is not really yours.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
We can get rid of most sins, if we have a witness who stands near us when we are likely to go wrong. The soul should have someone whom it can respect, – one by whose authority it may make even its inner shrine more hallowed.
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
Letter II - On Discursiveness in Reading
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
"I am content with few, content with one, content with none at all."
Seneca • Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes
No man has ever been so far advanced by Fortune that she did not threaten him as greatly as she had previously indulged him.