Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions. — 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
