It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty… — 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
