If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything… — 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
