No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. — 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
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long… — 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
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then. — 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
