“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Away with the world’s opinion of you – it’s always unsettled and divided. Away with the pursuits that have occupied the whole… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished to the… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share
