Seneca the Younger: Doing

Seneca the Younger was Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“I do not know whether I shall make progress; but I should prefer to lack success rather than to lack faith.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXV: On Reformation

“Let us greedily enjoy our friends, because we do not know how long this privilege will be ours.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXIII

“Our luxuries have condemned us to weakness; we have ceased to be able to do that which we have long declined to do.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LV: On Vatia’s Villa

“Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.”

Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter IV: On the terrors of death