Seneca Quotes About Self-Respect

Of Peace of Mind, section VI, Aubrey Stewart translation (1889), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and Wikisource. The sentence opens Seneca’s advice to form a true estimate of oneself before matching undertakings to one’s actual abilities and temperament.

Of Peace of Mind, section II, Aubrey Stewart translation in Minor Dialogues Together with the Dialogue on Clemency (1889), cross-checked against Project Gutenberg #64576 and the complete Wikisource transcription. Seneca tells Serenus to have confidence in himself and believe he is proceeding on the right path while defining the steady condition he calls peace of mind.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter II; part of Seneca’s criticism of people who give all their time away.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter III; part of Seneca’s inventory of where a lifetime disappears.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter VIII; Seneca warns that even people who know time is precious often give it away without noticing the loss.

On the Shortness of Life, Chapter XIX; Seneca closes by asking the engrossed to measure how much of their lifetime was actually their own.