Seneca
Seneca
cured delay reason time
Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured
debt man recognizes repay taken time
A man who has taken your time recognizes no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay
certainty delay depend depends forward greatest loss relinquish time time-and-time-management
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
burial letters living love retirement
Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial
himself power powerful
He is most powerful who has power over himself
gift gifts immortal life living philosophy
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy
advice life terrify worth
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
blessing confidence source
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.
bitter calm cannot comfort mind
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
adversity brave gold men tried
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity
hands sword tool
A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
body home
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly
ashamed causes either following man results sadness success
Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success