He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things… — 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
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours… — 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
God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that… — 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
We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one… — 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
