He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing! — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature… — 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
