Book: Moral letters to Lucilius. Page 3

Win yourself for yourself, take care of and save time that you have taken away or stolen, which nothing took place. Make sure that I write the truth: part time we have taken by force, part kidnapping, part flows away in vain. But all the shameful loss of our own negligence. Look-ka closely: after all, the greatest part of life we spend on bad deeds, a lot - to do nothing, and all life - not on those things that need.

Don't know how, but only a fictitious worries stronger. Valid has a measure, and that comes from nowhere, fearful soul is free to speculate. There is nothing gibellina and nepopravimoe panic, every other fear is reckless and insane.

The few holds of slavery, most of their slaves are kept.

For that matter, the outcome of which is uncertain, should be taken frequently to ever it came.

However, the philosophy is not to boast of: for many who bragged about it and boasted she was the cause of the danger. May she deliver us from the evils of you, and do not speak out against other people's vices.

Many are willing to suffer something worse who are ready to betray a friend in order to live longer, to personally give to child molestation, just to look at the light of the witness of so many atrocities. Need to get rid of thirst of life and to learn one thing: it does not matter when will happen with you that it is ever going to happen. Life was good, and not long life; and often in that and the good that it is short.

Who now is wasted, and that depends on the future. And when I caught up with itself, when a relaxed spirit knows what day and age are one and the same, then he looks down on all the days and things that have come, and with a loud laugh thinking about a series of times.

The greatest flaw of life, its incompleteness due to our habit of postponing from day to day. Who every evening completes the work of his life, that time is not necessary.

Forbearance is a voluntary poverty.

A time before us and after us, not ours. You neglected one point; stretch it - but until when?

Longa est vita, si plena est.
Life is long if it is saturated.

In tears we are looking for evidence of grief and not so much follow the attraction of sorrow, how many show it to others.
(We're looking for tears in the proof of our longing and not subject to tribulation, and put it on display.)

A long way of teaching and not enough about effective methods of learning.
(A long way instructions, concise and compelling way of examples.)

Our mistake is that we look at death as a future event. A large part of the death has already occurred: that for us, in her possession.
(The death we see in front; and a large portion of it we have, - after all, how many years of life have passed, everything belongs to death.)