If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks. — 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
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
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
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
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything… — 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
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — 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
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
Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does… — 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
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
