People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — 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
