Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
