How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — 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
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend. — 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
