As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. — 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
