To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor. — 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
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — 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
