Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves,… — 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
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having… — 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
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery. — 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
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance,… — 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
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power… — 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
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy!… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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 Image
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but… — 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
