It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca. – Seneca #Philosophy
If you wish to be a writer; write! – Epictetus #Wisdom
Men exist for the sake of one another. – Marcus Aurelius #Inspiration
But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful—and hence neither good nor bad. – Marcus Aurelius #Stoicism
There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility. – Marcus Aurelius #Wisdom
Keep thyself therefore, truly simple, good, sincere, grave, free from all ostentation, a lover of that which is just, religious, kind, tender-hearted, strong and vigorous to undergo anything that becomes thee. – Marcus Aurelius #Inspiration
That whenever I felt like helping someone who was short of money, or otherwise in need, I never had to be told that I had no resources to do it with. And that I was never put in that position myself—of having to take something from someone else. – Marcus Aurelius #Motivation
But death certainly, and life, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, all these things equally happen to good men and bad, being things which make us neither better nor worse. Therefore they are neither good nor evil. – Marcus Aurelius #Motivation
The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite. – Marcus Aurelius #Motivation
The amount of life we truly live is small. For our existence on Earth is not Life, but merely Time. – Seneca #Stoicism
You're not yet Socrates, but you can still live as if you want to be him. – Epictetus #Stoicism
Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised. – Marcus Aurelius #Stoicism
Everything which belongs to the body is a stream, and what belongs to the soul is a dream. – Marcus Aurelius #Wisdom
Honor and revere the gods, treat human beings as they deserve, be tolerant with others and strict with yourself. Remember, nothing belongs to you but your flesh and blood—and nothing else is under your control. – Marcus Aurelius #Inspiration
Those who choose to have no real purpose in life are ever rootless and dissatisfied, tossed by their aimlessness into ever-changing situations. – Seneca #Philosophy
Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words. – Epictetus #Stoicism
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to live ... while you have life in you, while you still can, make yourself good. – Marcus Aurelius #Motivation
We are weak, watery beings standing in the midst of unrealities; therefore let us turn our minds to the things that are everlasting. – Seneca #Motivation
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well. – Seneca #Wisdom
Ask about those whose names are learned by heart, and you will see that they have these distinguishing marks: X cultivates Y and Y cultivates Z – no one bothers about himself. – Seneca #Inspiration