Quote by Seneca: “All things, Lucilius, belong to others; time alone is ours.”

Everything you think you own — your money, your reputation, your body — can be taken from you. The only thing that is genuinely yours is how you spend your attention and your hours. Seneca is urging us to treat time as the only real wealth.

Seneca wrote his Letters to Lucilius in the final years of his life while under Nero's increasingly paranoid rule. Knowing his position was precarious, these letters carry an urgency about how to live wisely when time may be cut short by forces beyond your control.

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright who served as advisor to Emperor Nero and wrote extensively on ethics, resilience, and the good life in letters and essays including Letters from a Stoic. He was compelled to commit suicide by Nero in 65 CE.