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- Seneca, Montaigne, And Paying Attention...
From Sarah Bakewell in How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer:As Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out: The only one who can keep you mindful of this is you: It...
- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 44 (Kindle): Suppose, then, that you were not that Roman knight, but a freedman, you might nevertheless by your own efforts come to be the only free man amid a throng of gentlemen. "How?" you ask. Simply by distinguishing...
- Seneca Quote
“The conditions under which we are born would be favourable if only we did not abandon them. Nature's intention was that we should need no great equipment for living in happiness: every one of us is capable of making himself happy.” –Seneca,...
- Seneca Quote
“The condition of all men who are busy with other things is wretched, but most wretched is that of men who busy themselves energetically in pursuits that are not even their own, who sleep to suit another's sleeping pattern, who walk to suit another's...
- Seneca Quote
“Just as conversation or reading or some deep reflection deceives travellers, and they discover they have reached their goal before knowing they were approaching it, so it is with this unbroken and rapid journey of life, that we make at the same pace,...
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“….we are never released from care if we suppose that each time we are under observation we are under scrutiny; for many things happen that expose our true selves against our will, and, though such attention to oneself may succeed, life brings neither happiness nor peace of mind to those who live it constantly behind a mask. But what great pleasure lies in that frankness that is pure and in itself unadorned, veiling no part of its character! But even a life such as this is liable to be scorned, if all things lie open to all people; for there are those who turn up their noses at whatever has become too familiar. But virtue runs no risk of being undervalued when it is put right before our eyes, and it is better to be despised for being natural than to be tormented by constant pretence. Let us, however, show moderation in the matter: it makes a considerable difference whether you live naturally or carelessly.” –Seneca, Dialogues and Essays
- Seneca, Montaigne, And Paying Attention...
From Sarah Bakewell in How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer:As Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out: The only one who can keep you mindful of this is you: It...
- Seneca Quote
From Moral letters to Lucilius/Letter 44 (Kindle): Suppose, then, that you were not that Roman knight, but a freedman, you might nevertheless by your own efforts come to be the only free man amid a throng of gentlemen. "How?" you ask. Simply by distinguishing...
- Seneca Quote
“The conditions under which we are born would be favourable if only we did not abandon them. Nature's intention was that we should need no great equipment for living in happiness: every one of us is capable of making himself happy.” –Seneca,...
- Seneca Quote
“The condition of all men who are busy with other things is wretched, but most wretched is that of men who busy themselves energetically in pursuits that are not even their own, who sleep to suit another's sleeping pattern, who walk to suit another's...
- Seneca Quote
“Just as conversation or reading or some deep reflection deceives travellers, and they discover they have reached their goal before knowing they were approaching it, so it is with this unbroken and rapid journey of life, that we make at the same pace,...