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
They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ... — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another. — 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
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise. — 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
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
