A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge… — 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
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being… — 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
Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded. — 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
