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
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar. — 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
There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress. — 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
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in… — 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
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or… — 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
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of… — 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
