Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long… — 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
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning. — 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
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit… — 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
