Category: Quotes worth pondering

“Happy the man who improves other people not merely when he is in their presence but even when he is in their thoughts! And happy, too, is the person who can so revere another as to adjust and shape his...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 →

“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 →

"Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic This is one of the most often quoted sentences in Letters from a Stoic. It’s a simple, easy to recall...Read More →

“To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind himself.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic Fear drives what we do in many...Read More →

“As it is with a play, so it is with life — what matters is not how long the acting lasts, but how good it is.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic It’s torture to sit through a movie or play ...Read More →

“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if it was earthenware is no less great.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic I’m sad to...Read More →