There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who… — 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… — 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… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually… — 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
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men? — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery. — 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
