The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
