Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#friendship #letters #friendship

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#inspirational

Maximum remedium est irae mora. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#stoicism #anger

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #living #quality-of-life #time #life

We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#oneness #seneca #nature

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#loyalty #money #selling-out #money

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #inspirational

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#philosophy #stoic #life

...it is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#hardship #inspirational #life #stoic #stoicismism

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering