36 Quotes About Seneca

I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it.... I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.

Ronan's smile was sharp and hooked as one of the creature's claws. "'A sword is never a killer; it is a tool in the killer's hand'.""I can't believe Noah didn't stick around to help.""Sure you can. Never trust the dead.

We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole

Those who wish their virtue to be advertised are not striving for virtue but for renown. Are you not willing to be just without being renowned? Nay, indeed you must often be just and be at the same time disgraced. And then, if you are wise, let ill repute, well won, be a delight. Farewell.

...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.

I never spend a day in idleness; I appropriate even a part of the night for study. I do not allow time for sleep but yield to it when I must, and when my eyes are wearied with waking and ready to fall shut, I keep them at their task. 2. I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially from my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Oft hat ein hochbetagter Greis keinen anderen Beweis für die Länge seiner Lebens als die Summe seiner Jahre.

The Stoic philosopher and playwright Seneca is said to have owned five hundred tripod tables with ivory legs—no small irony, since he was a vocal critic of the empire's extravagances.

Yo soy fiel a Séneca. Llegué a sentir como si me hablara a mí, con su manera divertida en verdad, pero solo a mí. Sus cartas me ayudaron a sentirme vivo durante lo que vino después.