The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. — 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
