When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind. — 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
This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it. — 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
What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the… — 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
