There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful. — 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 one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded. — 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
