Seneca
wasting time
"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
those calling draw you away
"All those who call you to themselves draw you away from yourself."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
luck
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Religion
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Difficulties hard work mind body
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Tale - life
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
life
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
port, sail, wind
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
poor
“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
brave is free
“He who is brave is free”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
wealth
“Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
sword - killer
“A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
fear ignorance
“Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Vita sine litteris mors
Vita sine litteris mors ('Life without Learning is Death")
—Seneca, the younger (4BC-65AD)
no right way for wrong thing
"There’s no right way to do the wrong thing."
— Seneca (4BC-65AD)
Docendo discimus
Docendo discimus, (Latin "by teaching, we learn")
—Seneca the Younger (4BC-65AD)
greed satisfy nature
"nothing satisfies greed, but even a little satisfies nature"
—Seneca the Younger (4BC-65AD)
seneca - true good great simple
"Really true, good and great things are always simple"
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
seneca - quantity like quality bad dislike
"Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike you, so much better."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
fall rise higher
"Many things have fallen only to rise higher."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
seneca - difficult date
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
wine drink trouble
"at times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine:
for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind, and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases."
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
people leisure philosophy alive annex age
“Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
learn school life
“We learn not in the school, but in life.”
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
fortune sluggish ruin rapid
"Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid"
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)
timendi causa est nescire ignorance is the caue of fear
“Timendi causa est nescire"
("Ignorance is the cause of fear.”)
—Seneca (4BC-65AD)