“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for crisis.” — Seneca Crisis Copy Share Image
“The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature.” — Seneca Happiness Copy Share Image
“The day which we fear is out last is buth the birthday of eternity” — Seneca Birthday Copy Share Image
“Bonis nocet, qui malis parcit. He harms the good (people) who spares the evil.” — Seneca Evil Copy Share Image
“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that” — Seneca Responsibility Copy Share Image
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars” — Seneca Earth Copy Share Image
“all the works of mortal man have been doomed to mortality, and in the midst of things which have been destined to… — Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” — Seneca Adversity Copy Share Image
“weigh carefully your hopes as well as your fears, and whenever all the elements are in doubt, decide in your own favour;… — Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
“Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery… — Seneca Nature Copy Share Image
“Lat, urbes constituit aetas: hora dissolvit: momento fit cinis: diu sylva. An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a… — Seneca Ashes Copy Share Image
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love… — Seneca Friend Copy Share Image
“A pleasure that is ephemeral brings no true satisfaction to any man. How miserable must be the lives of those folk who… — Seneca Ephemeral Copy Share Image
“it makes no difference how important the provocation may be, but into what kind of soul it penetrates. Similarly with fire; it… — Seneca Fire Copy Share Image
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It… — Seneca Philosophy Copy Share Image
“You must set your hands to tasks which you can finish or at least hope to finish, and avoid those which get… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“For it is dangerous to attach one's self to the crowd in front, and so long as each one of us is… — Seneca American politics Copy Share Image
“His eyes blaze and sparkle, his whole face is crimson with blood that surges from the lowest depths of the heart, his… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Do you wish to know how different the position is in which we place them? If my riches leave me, they will… — Seneca Money Copy Share Image
“Beasts avoid the dangers which they see, and when they have escaped them are free from care; but we men torment ourselves… — Seneca Animals Copy Share Image
“If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail… — Seneca Education Copy Share Image
“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least… — Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
“Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Poverty will keep for you your true and tried friends; you will be rid of the men who were not seeking you… — Seneca Poverty Copy Share Image
“Epicurus: “If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be… — Seneca Epicurus Copy Share Image
“You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.” — Seneca Gladiators Copy Share Image
“Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity.” — Seneca Difficulties Copy Share Image
A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor — Seneca Executions Copy Share Image
We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality — Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms… — Seneca Birth Copy Share Image
“The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.” — Seneca Power Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.” — Seneca Character Copy Share Image
