Women Amidst Flowers 1875. Claude Monet

What really ruins our characters is the fact that none of us looks back over his life. We think about what we are going to do, and only rarely of that, and fail to think about what we have done, yet any plans for the future are dependent on the past.

—	Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

 

 

It is not the man who has to little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.

—	Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

 

Show me a man who isn’t a slave; one is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear.

—	Seneca, Letters from a Stoic