Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. — 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
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts — 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
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like… — 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
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen… — 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
