When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — 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
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason… — 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
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns… — 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
