The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image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
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that… — 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
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a… — 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
Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. — 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
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — 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
