#seneca

Wild beasts flee from the dangers they see -
and when they have fled they are calm.
– Seneca

“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”

-— Seneca, Letters From a Stoic

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”

„Nicht wer wenig hat, sondern wer viel wünscht, ist arm.“

– Seneca

Heute habe ich Marion Giebels Übersetzung von Senecas “Das Leben ist kurz” hinzugefügt. Der Text ist auch über den Menüpunkt “Stoicism” erreichbar.

Today I have added Seneca’s “On the Shortness of Life” , translated by C.D.N. Costa. You can also access it via the menu bar in the “Stoicism” section.

„Ziehe dich in dich selbst zurück, so viel du kannst; verkehre mit denen, die dich besser machen, und erstatte solchen den Zutritt, die du besser machen kannst.“
– Seneca

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.”
– Seneca

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
– Seneca

“We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
– Seneca

It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
– Seneca

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not”
– Seneca, De Vita Beata

“Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
– Seneca

Warum sind wir so geizig mit unserem Geld, gehen aber verschwenderisch mit unserer Lebenszeit um? In seinem Traktat „Das Leben ist kurz“ plädiert Seneca für einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit der Ressource Zeit.

Lesung mit Reinhard Glemnitz

“The life we are given isn’t short but we make it so; we’re not ill provided but we are wasteful of life.”
– Seneca