Today's stoicism quote of the day features Seneca. Seneca was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
― Seneca
What do I take from this quote? My take is that is we are always looking forward in dread of what comes next, we can never be truly at peace or in control of what is now. If we spend our evenings grumbling that we have to go to work tomorrow, or our days grumbling that we have to run errands this evening, that leads to nothing more than a cycle of continuing grumbling and discontent.
What do you take from this Seneca quote? Let me know in the comments.