Alt timp nu am. Despre scurtimea vieții. Despre viața fericită Quotes

“we are all bound by this oath: "To bear the ills of mortal life, and to submit with a good grace to what we cannot avoid.”
― Seneca, Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic

“When I think of all I have said, I envy the mute.”
― Seneca, Alt timp nu am. Despre scurtimea vieții. Despre viața fericită

“matters do not stand so well with mankind that the majority should prefer the better course: the more people do a thing the worse it is likely to be. Let us therefore inquire, not what is most commonly done, but what is best for us to do, and what will establish us in the possession of undying happiness, not what is approved of by the vulgar, the worst possible exponents of truth.”
― Seneca, Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic

“we perish because we follow other men's examples: we should be cured of this if we were to disengage ourselves from the herd;”
― Seneca, Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic

“the mind itself suggests to itself many perverted, vicious forms of pleasure? — in the first place arrogance, excessive self-esteem, swaggering precedence over other men, a shortsighted, nay, a blind devotion to his own interests, dissolute luxury, excessive delight springing from the most trifling and childish causes, and also talkativeness, pride that takes a pleasure in insulting others, sloth, and the decay of a dull mind which goes to sleep over itself.”
― Seneca, Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic

“no one can merely go wrong by himself, but he must become both the cause and adviser of another's wrong doing.”
― Seneca, Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic

“Some men, indeed, only begin to live when it is time for them to leave off living. And if this seems surprising to you, I shall add that which will surprise you still more: Some men have left off living before they have begun. Farewell.”
― Seneca, Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic

“In order to banish hunger and thirst, it is not necessary for you to pay court at the doors of the purse-proud, or to submit to the stern frown, or to the kindness that humiliates; nor is it necessary for you to scour the seas, or go campaigning”
― Seneca, Seneca Six Pack (Illustrated): On the Happy Life, Letters from a Stoic Vol I, Medea, On Leisure, The Daughters of Troy and The Stoic