Daily Stoicism Audiobook

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person. 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.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. If you live in harmony with nature, you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich. Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.

What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? Whatever years be behind us are in death’s hands. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day – that your faults die before you do.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. To be everywhere is to be nowhere. Find over 750 more quotes from Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65). Listening to this audiobook will increase your wisdom 10-fold and give you valuable insights to live your best life!