Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — 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
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. — 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
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of… — 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
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ... — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear. — 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
