A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained,… — 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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich. — 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
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary — 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
