This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — 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
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
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments.… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only… — 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
