“distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)” — Seneca Book Copy Share Image
Women give nothing to friendship except what they borrow from love. — Seneca Friendship Copy Share Image
“I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“In sapientis quoque animo, etiam cum uulnus sanatum est, cicatrix manet." : "The wise man's mind will keep its scar long after… — Seneca Scar Copy Share Image
“Why not stop trying to prevent posterity being silent about you? You were born to die, and a silent funeral is less… — Seneca Born to die Copy Share Image
“All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselves, through our disdain… — Seneca Birth Copy Share Image
“The amount of life we truly live is small. For our existence on Earth is not Life, but merely Time.” — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“life is not worth living, and there is no limit to our sorrows, if we indulge our fears to the greatest possible… — Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
“Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd.” — Seneca Fashion Copy Share Image
“Awake, my heart, And do such deeds as in the time to come No tongue shall praise, but none refuse to tell.” — Seneca Praise Copy Share Image
“You are unfortunate in my judgment, for you have never been unfortunate. You have passed through life with no antagonist to face… — Seneca Adversity Copy Share Image
People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Let us be brave in the face of hazards. Let us not fear wrongs, or wounds, or bonds, or poverty. And what… — Seneca Brave Copy Share Image
“It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Do you think that the man has any thought of mending his ways who counts over his vices as if they were… — Seneca Time Copy Share Image
“From this state also will he flee. If I should attempt to enumerate them one by one, I should not find a… — Seneca Government Copy Share Image
“For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he… — Seneca Character Copy Share Image
“It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Pacuvius, who by long occupancy made Syria his own,8 used to hold a regular burial sacrifice in his own honour, with wine… — Seneca Eunuchs Copy Share Image
“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to… — Seneca Human spirit Copy Share Image
“And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself… — Seneca Fearful Copy Share Image
“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more ridiculous than a person talking with certitude about the future? Such people devote their energy on creating a… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“In consequence, when the pleasures have been removed which busy people derive from their actual activities, the mind cannot endure the house,… — Seneca Boredom Copy Share Image
“Would you say that that man is at leisure who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a… — Seneca Nature Copy Share Image
“Hence, the wise man accustoms himself to coming trouble, lightening by long reflection the evils which others lighten by long endurance. We… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — Seneca Opinions Copy Share Image
