Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. — 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
