We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only… — 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
