You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. — 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
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary. — 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
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have. — 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
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past. — 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 wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed. — 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
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself. — 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
Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ... — 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
