The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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
He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one… — 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
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
