“What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character Copy Share Image
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Birthday Copy Share Image
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Money Copy Share Image
“No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is uncertain where Death will await you; there expect it everywhere.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit,… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Admiration Copy Share Image
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ideas Copy Share Image
“Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Ubicumque ex aequo ad caelum erigitur acies, paribus intervallis omnia divina ab omnibus humanis distant - From whatever point on the earth's… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Heaven Copy Share Image
“Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Confidence Copy Share Image
“A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Beauty 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 Fear Copy Share Image
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Adversity Copy Share Image
“There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Friendship Copy Share Image
“errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Diabolical Copy Share Image
“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Art of life Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crime Copy Share Image
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuit No great talent without an element of madness” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Genius Copy Share Image
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice 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 Image
“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crisis Copy Share Image
“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Light Copy Share Image
“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crime Copy Share Image
“Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Good man Copy Share Image
“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character Copy Share Image
“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Clemency Copy Share Image
“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
