Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #inspirational

He who is brave is free ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#freedom #gallantry #freedom

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#ignorance #knowledge #life #life

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #purpose-of-life #time #usefulness #waste

We learn not in the school, but in life. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#wisdom #inspirational

What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#jimi-the-kewl #natural-questions #seneca #nature

Beyond all things is the sea ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#soul #death