Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Seneca
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Apocolocyntosis
Consolations
Dialogues and Letters
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium: Latin Text
Letters from a Stoic
Letters From A Stoic: Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium (Illustrated. Newly revised text. Includes Image Gallery + Audio): All Three Volumes
Moral Essays: Volume I De Providentia. De Constantia. De Ira. De Clementia
Moral Essays: Volume III
Moral letters to Lucilius Volume 1
Moral Letters to Lucilius, Vol. 2
Natural Questions
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
Seneca: Das gro_e Buch vom glücklichen Leben - Gesammelte Werke
The Conquest of Happiness
The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
All outdoors may be bedlam, provided there is no disturbance within.
Love of bustle is not industry.
The sun also shines on the wicked.
Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
Time discovered truth.
The sun shines even on the wicked.
Failure changes for the better success for the worse.
Speech is the index of the mind.
Whatever is well said by another is mine.
If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
He who has great power should use it lightly.