#iv

As long as you live, keep learning how to live. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#keep #learning #live #long #you

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#expecting #greatest #impediment #living #loses

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#burns #earth #eternity #fire #gives

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#cheerfully #fingers #give #grace #hesitation

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#does #god #govern #hearts #i

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#best #first #genius #gives #last

Life, if well lived, is long enough. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #lived #long #well

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#branch #clear #devote #entirely #exclusively

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chronic #console #finds #fresh #grief

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#creative #dead #effort #everything #living