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Seneca

Seneca Quotes

Total quotes: 3

Seneca

Birthname

Manner of Death: Forced Suicide

Nationality: Ancient Rome

Occupations: Playwright, Correspondent, Aphorist, Statesman, Philosopher

Total quotes: 3

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”

— Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

Tagged: Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Minimalism & Simplicity

“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a living man.”

— Seneca, On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas)

Tagged: Life

“We should imitate bees and we should keep in separate compartments whatever we have collected from our diverse reading, for things conserved separately keep better. Then, diligently applying all the resources of our native talent, we should mingle all the various nectars we have tasted, and turn them into a single sweet substance, in such a way that, even if it is apparent where it originated, it appears quite different from what it was in its original state.”

— Seneca, Seneca, Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought

Tagged: Quote, Quote Collecting, Commonplace Books

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