“Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare diabolicum.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Mistake Copy Share Image
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character Copy Share Image
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Business Copy Share Image
“Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Craves Copy Share Image
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“If i had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born.” — 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 Acquaintances 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 Confident Copy Share Image
“However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Desire Copy Share Image
“There is therefore no advice—and of such advice no one can have too much—which I would rather give you than this: that… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Irritated Copy Share Image
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Philosophy 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
“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fickleness Copy Share Image
“Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Anthem Copy Share Image
“But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Keeping quiet Copy Share Image
“Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Change Copy Share Image
“Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Animals Copy Share Image
“So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ...… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Good health 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Friend Copy Share Image
“A person teaching and a person learning,' he said, 'should have the same end in view: the improvement of the latter.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Education Copy Share Image
“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Amor Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life Copy Share Image