What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with… — 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
