I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed… — 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
Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — 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
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this… — 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… — 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
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable. — 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
