“Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind” — Seneca Psychology Copy Share Image
“Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem" "As long as we are among humans, let us be humane” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.” — Seneca Vice Copy Share Image
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” — Seneca Admiration Copy Share Image
“Similarly, too rich a soil makes the grain fall flat, branches break down under too heavy a load, excessive productiveness does not… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness.” — Seneca Strength Copy Share Image
“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.” — Seneca Boredom Copy Share Image
“There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.” — Seneca Inspirational Copy Share Image
“let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Despise everything that useless toil creates as an ornament and an object of beauty. And reflect that nothing except the soul is… — Seneca Beauty Copy Share Image
“Socrates made the same remark to one who complained; he said: "Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have… — Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“And what’s so bad about your being deprived of that?... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“No one," he says, "leaves this world in a different manner from one who has just been born." That is not true;… — Seneca Nature Copy Share Image
“I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I… — Seneca Anomie Copy Share Image
“We are, therefore, seeking how the mind can follow a smooth and steady course, well disposed to itself, happily regarding its own… — Seneca Peace Copy Share Image
“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From… — Seneca Confidence Copy Share Image
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance; and we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time.… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is… — Seneca Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The following also was nobly spoken by someone or other, for it is doubtful who the author was; they asked him what… — Seneca Art Copy Share Image
“Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have… — Seneca Change Copy Share Image
“In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of… — Seneca Aftermath Copy Share Image
“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness… — Seneca Appreciation Copy Share Image