Letters From a Stoic - Seneca

## Metadata
- Author: **Seneca**
- Full Title: Letters From a Stoic
- Category: #books
- Tags: #metaphysical #philosophy #rationality
## Highlights
- This, the summum bonum or 'spreme ideal', i uly sumzed in acient phlosophy as a combination of four qualities: wisdom (or moral iight), couage, selfcontrol adjutice (or upright dealing (Page 16)
- Nothing, to my way of tg, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he i ad pass some time in his own compay (Page 33)
- Trstig everone is a much a fault a trsting no one (though I should cl te frst the worthier ad te second the safer behaviour (Page 36)
- I T i cle to you, I know, Lucilius, tat no one c led a happy lfe, or eve one that is beable, without te pursuit of wsdom, and that the perfection of wisdom i what make te happy life, although eve the bengs ofwisdom make life beable (Page 63)
- Without it no one c led a lfe fee of fe or worry. Every hou of the day countles situation arise tt cl for advce, ad for that advice we have to look to philosophy (Page 64)
- If you shape your lie accordng to nte, you wl never be poor (Page 65)
- If you shape your lie accordng to nte, you wl never be poor; i according to people's opion, you wil never be rch.' (Page 65)
- A persn who h lened how to die h uneed how to be a slave. (Page 72)
- A consciousness of wrongdoing . is te fst step to salvation (Page 77)
- How much longer are you going to sere under others' orders? Assume authority yourself and utter something that may be handed dow to posterity. Produce sometg fom you own resources (Page 80)
- For that is what philosophy ha promised me - that she wl me me God's equ. That's the invittion ad that's wht I've come for ; b a good a you word (Page 99)
- Wen one h lost a fiend one's eyes shoud be neiter dry nor streaming (Page 114)
- Wen one h lost a fiend one's eyes shoud be neiter dry nor streaming. Tes, yes, there should be, but not lametaton (Page 114)
- In the pleue we fd i the memory of departed fiends there i a resemblace to the way in which certain bitter fruit are agreeble or te very acidity of a exceedingly old wine h it atraction (Page 115)
- am too great, wa hom to too gret a destiny to be my body's slave (Page 123)
- I am too great, wa hom to too gret a destiny to be my body's slave (Page 123)
- Refl to b iueced by one's body asure one's feedom (Page 124)
- What realy rs ou characers is the fc that none of u looks back over his life. We t about what we ae going to do, ad ony rrely of that, ad f to t about what we have done, yet ay pla for te fte ae dependent on the pat (Page 140)
- Wat's the ue ofovercoming opponet a opponent in the wetl or boxng rings iyou c b overcome by you temper (Page 156)
- To lose someone you love i something you'll regad as the hardest of all blows to bea, while all the time this will be a sly a cryig because the leaves fll fom the beautiful tree that add to the charm of your home (Page 187)
- Things tend, i fact, to go wrong ; part of the blame lies on the teachers of philosophy, who today teach us how to ague instead of how to live, part on their students, who come to the teachers i the frst place with a view to developig not their character but their itellect. The result ha been the trasformation of philosophy, the study of widom, into philology, the study ofword (Page 207)
- heaviest particles and any cloudiness settling to the bottom. It is just the same with human life. The best comes frst (Page 208)
- Life's fnest days, for u poor hu big \ Fly fst (Page 209)