It is uncertain where Death will await you; there expect it everywhere.
All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.
The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
The trip doesn’t exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears … so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to harass and plague you wherever you wander on land o...
Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the ends of the earth, and yet in whatever outlandish corner of the world you may find yourself stationed, you will find ...
So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and what is superfluous, what is upright or honorable conduct and what is not, it will not be travelling but drifting. All this hurrying from place to...
If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.
The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.
El mayor impedimento al vivir es la espera, que, por estar pendiente al día de mañana, pierde el día de hoy.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it.
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage." — Seneca
Even for studies, where expenditure is most honorable, it is justifiable only so long as it is kept within bounds. What is the use of having countless books and libraries, whose titles their owners can scarcely read through in a whole lifetime? The l...
No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool
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...
And so there is no reason for you to think that any man has lived long because he has grey hairs or wrinkles, he has not lived long – he has existed long. For what if you should think that man had had a long voyage who had been caught by a fierce s...
Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we...
Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!
