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
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
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
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
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. — 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
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
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
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
