Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him… — 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
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving 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
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties?… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay. — 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
