It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all… — 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
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. — 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
