Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
SenecaHis eyes blaze and sparkle, his whole face is crimson with blood that surges from the lowest depths of the heart, his lips quiver, his teeth are clenched, his hair bristles and stands on end, his breathing is forced and harsh, his joints crack from writhing, he groans and bellows, bursts out into speech with scarcely intelligible words, strikes his hands together continually, and stamps the ground with his feet; his whole body is excited and performs great angry threats; it is an ugly and horrible picture of distorted and swollen frenzy - you cannot tell if this vice is more execrable or more hideous.
SenecaThere is no genius without a touch of madness.
SenecaNullus accusator caret culpa; omnes peccaviums.
SenecaThere are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
SenecaNo es que dispongamos de poco tiempo, es más bien que perdemos mucho.
SenecaYou ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
SenecaFire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
SenecaTags: sorrow suffering grief fire hardship misfortune
Упоритата добрина побеждава и най-лошото сърце.
SenecaIt is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.
SenecaTags: life inspirational fun stoic hardship stoicismism
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