The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you — 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
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — 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
Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — 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
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
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
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
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
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand. — 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
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
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
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
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
To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those… — 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
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
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
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
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
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What… — 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
Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen… — 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
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery. — 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
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs. — 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
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
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
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
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
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
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
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
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share
