How miserable must be the lives of those folk who labor so hard for something that once gained they must work even harder to keep.

Seneca quotes on shortness of life. Life is long enough and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. He was the son of Seneca the Elder a well-known Roman writer as well as later in his life uncle to the poet Lucan. How many are quite unworthy to see the light and yet the day dawns Seneca.

Letters from a Stoic On the Shortness of Life On benefits Seneca de Ira on Anger Thyestes. If you really want to escape the things that harass you what youre needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person Seneca Quotes on the Unpredictability and Shortness of Life 21. Silent it will glide on.

May Senecas words have a profound impact on you so that you use your time in a way that adds value to your life. For certain ailments must be treated while the patient is unaware of them Seneca On the Shortness of Life A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. Life will follow the path it started upon and will neither reverse nor check its course.

On The Shortness of Life - Lucius Seneca The majority of mortals Paulinus complain bitterly of the spitefulness of Nature because we are born for a brief span of life because even this space that has been granted to us rushes by so speedily and so swiftly that. As is a tale so is life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca otherwise known as Seneca the Younger or just Seneca was born in southern Spain over 2000 years ago and educated in Rome.

Seneca 50 Life Changing Audio Quotes Male Female Voice Sayings for you to Enjoy Read Listen as Audiobook Motivate Share. 10 Best Seneca Quotes from On The Shortness of Life It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it. One thing that stands out from.

We are not given a short life but we make it short and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it It is a small part of life we really live. While we wait for life life passes Seneca. It will not prolong itself at the command of a king or at the applause of the populace.