The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it… — 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
The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — 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
