He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short… — 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
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself. — 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
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it… — 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
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of… — 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
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
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
