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
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. .… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — 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
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
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin. — 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
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil… — 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
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the… — 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
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without… — 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
If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command. — 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
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
