Chi è dappertutto, non è da nessuna parte.
SenecaWe are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality
SenecaBut only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're worthy of her, she's worthy of you-fall into each other's arms. Say a firm, plain no to every other occupation.
SenecaNūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuit
No great talent without an element of madness
Tags: talent madness elements-of-being
Bonis nocet, qui malis parcit.
He harms the good (people) who spares the evil.
We must limit the running to and fro which most men practise, rambling about houses, theatres, and marketplaces. They mind other men's business, and always seem as though they themselves had something to do. If you ask one of them as he comes out of his own door, "Whither are you going?" he will answer, "By Hercules, I do not know: but I shall see some people and do something." They wander purposelessly seeking for something to do, and do, not what they have made up their minds to do, but what has casually fallen in their way. They move uselessly and without any plan, just like ants crawling over bushes, which creep up to the top and then down to the bottom again without gaining anything. Many men spend their lives in exactly the same fashion, which one may call a state of restless indolence.
SenecaIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SenecaTags: difficulty dare
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
SenecaTags: life learning time death living dying
Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it will not prolong itself at the command of a king, or at the applause of the populace. Just as it was started on its first day, so it will run; nowhere will it turn aside, nowhere will it delay.
SenecaTags: life time mortality shortness-of-life
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.
SenecaTags: life time death mortality immortality frailty shortness-of-life
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