Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. — 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
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