“Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Away with the world’s opinion of you – it’s always unsettled and divided. Away with the pursuits that have occupied the whole… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ...… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“No one will bring back the years: no one will restore you back to yourself. Life will follow the path it began… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
