There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted… — 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
