The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each… — 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
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy!… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance,… — 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
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already. — 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
