Quotes about Seneca

For all of us, the time is short and the span of life is brief On top of that, our real human problem, the Stoic philosopher Seneca said in a direct rebuke to the modern illusion, is not just that life is short but that we waste so much of it-so that life ceases for us "just when we are getting ready for it."35 But

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.