Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.
Weitere Zitate von Seneca
Zum Autor"They laboriously do nothing."
"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."
"He who is brave is free."
"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."
"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."
"Distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)."