It is often difficult to pull quotations from the surrounding text. An essay builds and builds layer upon layer of ideas following a certain logic or path. Often quotations end up sounding simplistic or vague. Well, I’m going to do my best.
On choosing people to hang out with:
“But in the current dearth of good men, you must be less particular in your choice. Still, you must especially avoid those who are gloomy and always lamenting, and grasp at every pretext for complaint. Though a man’s loyalty and kindness may not be in doubt, a companion who is agitated and groaning about everything is an enemy to peace of mind.”
Nov 27, 2005, 04:30AM PST | 1 cheer | 0 comments
I can’t believe I’m the only one reading Seneca. :( He’s so wonderful. I wish I could give everyone a book of his essays.
Hello? Hello…? Anybody else out there?
Nov 27, 2005, 04:17AM PST | 2 cheers | 3 comments
“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.”
~ Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)
Oct 30, 2005, 06:36AM PST | 3 cheers | 1 comment
