On the futility of planning ahead
101:5
Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
5.
Believe me when I say that everything is doubtful, even for those who are prosperous.
No one has any right to draw for himself upon the future.
The very thing that we grasp slips through our hands, and chance cuts into the actual hour which we are crowding so full.
Time does indeed roll along by fixed law, but as in darkness; and what is it to me whether Nature’s course is sure, when my own is unsure?
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On the futility of planning ahead
Location: Chapter 101, Section 5
Content:
5.
Believe me when I say that everything is doubtful, even for those who are prosperous.
No one has any right to draw for himself upon the future.
The very thing that we grasp slips through our hands, and chance cuts into the actual hour which we are crowding so full.
Time does indeed roll along by fixed law, but as in darkness; and what is it to me whether Nature’s course is sure, when my own is unsure?