...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
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
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — 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
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes. — 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
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
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — 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
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your… — 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
