There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind. — 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
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
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while… — 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
What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that… — 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
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a… — 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
