He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.… — 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
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is… — 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
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no… — 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
