Seneca the Younger Quotes About Expectations

• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

  Seneca the Younger

  Letting Go, Time, Future

• There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Expectations, Anticipation, Miserable

• They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Night, Expectations, Dawn

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