I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — 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
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
He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more. — 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
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. — 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
