Life is divided into three parts: what was, what is and what shall be. Of these three periods, the present is short, the future is doubtful and the past alone is certain.
Weitere Zitate von Seneca
Zum Autor"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... In thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is."
"They laboriously do nothing."
"Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk."
"It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die."
"Distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)."
"I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . Shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes."