Author: Daniella Mini

"To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it. Where there is a bad conscience, some circumstance or other may provide one with impunity, but never with freedom from anxiety." ...Read More →

“The growth of things is a tardy process and their undoing is a rapid matter.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic. One of the earliest lessons of childhood is that building something takes a ...Read More →

“No one confines his unhappiness to the present,” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Is it possible for anyone to live in the present? I say it is -for a fraction of the time. Here are some...Read More →

“If we were born in a state of moral enlightenment, wisdom would have been deprived of the best thing about her — that she isn’t one of the things which fortune either gives us or doesn’t. As things...Read More →

"The more the mind takes in the more it expands.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Everyone knows that the more you learn about a subject, the more you find how much more there is to it. This...Read More →

Consider these two quotes from Seneca the Younger in Letters from a Stoic: “Whatever can happen at any moment can happen today.” “Just as I know that anything is capable of happening so also do I know...Read More →

“How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant and the things that are honourable finally become, for you, the same.” Seneca the ...Read More →

“A man who follows someone else not only does not find anything, he is not even looking… Yes indeed, I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. The men who...Read More →

“You should neither become like the bad because they are many, nor be an enemy of the many because they are unlike you.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic This quote made my head spin a little...Read More →

Dear Lucius Annaeus Seneca, I’ve read your compilation of letters known as Letters from a Stoic. Over the past nine days, I’ve shared a new quote from it with friends and acquaintances. I’ve reflected...Read More →