ca. AD 1–65
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A Roman Stoic, tutor to an emperor and in the end his victim. Few have written about time more sharply, and few had less of it.
“It is not because it is hard that we do not dare. It is because we do not dare that it is hard.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“It is not that we have little time, but that we waste much of it.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · On the Shortness of Life
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“You travel far and change countries, but you take yourself along everywhere.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
Epistulae morales and De brevitate vitae, public domain. English rendering made for this site.