Seneca Stoicism Quotes

#1. You should ... live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.

Seneca.

#2. transporting data and deploying

Brian Knight

#3. Seneca's version of that Stoicism is antifragility from fate. No downside from Lady Fortuna, plenty of upside.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#4. I have seen the task that God has given people to keep them occupied over my star.

Ademola Adejumo

#5. Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.

Seneca.

#6. life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir

Danielle Steel

#7. When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

Myfanwy Pavelic

#8. [Philosophers] have come to envy the philologist and the mathematician, and they have taken over all the inessential elements in those studies - with the result that they know more about devoting care and attention to their speech than about devoting such attention to their lives.

Seneca.

#9. You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

LeBron James

#10. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

Seneca.

#11. I am very domesticated. I find I really enjoy it.

Samantha Fox

#12. Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

Seneca.

#13. Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#14. It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.

Seneca.

#15. Why do men feel threatened by women?

Margaret Atwood

#16. What fortune has made yours is not your own.

Seneca.

#17. Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

Seneca.

#18. It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

Seneca.

#19. This was just one of many times God has spared me.

Jack Kelley

#20. Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

Seneca The Younger

#21. 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.

#22. What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

Seneca.

#23. The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.

Seneca.

#24. Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

Sumantra Ghoshal

#25. So the life of a philosopher extends widely: he is not confined by the same boundary as are others. He alone is free from the laws that limit the human race, and all ages serve him as though he were a god.

Seneca.

#26. If you apply yourself to study you will avoid all boredom with life, you will not long for night because you are sick of daylight, you will be neither a burden to yourself nor useless to others, you will attract many to become your friends and the finest people will flock about you.

Seneca.

#27. It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze: sometimes we gain strength by driving in a carriage, by travel, by change of air, or by social meals and a more generous allowance of wine.

Seneca.

#28. All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.

Seneca.

#29. Be the best, not necessarily the original.

I.M. Pei

#30. To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Seneca.

#31. If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.

Seneca.

#32. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.

Seneca.

#33. Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

Seneca.

#34. Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

Seneca.

#35. In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.

Cullen Hightower

#36. Don't try to convince anyone of anything. When you don't know something, ask or go away and find out. But when you do act, be like the silent, flowing river and open yourself to a greater energy. Believe
that's what I said at our first meeting
simply believe that you can.

Paulo Coelho

#37. Here is your great soul - the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.

Seneca.

#38. I gave up my childhood for a career.

Brenda Lee

#39. There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.

Howard Zinn