“Natural abilities do not respond well to compulsion; when Nature is in opposition, labour is fruitless.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“No one," he says, "leaves this world in a different manner from one who has just been born." That is not true;… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Epicurus: “If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The things that are indispensable require no elaborate pains for their acquisition; it is only the luxuries that call for labour. Follow… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Would you say that that man is at leisure who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor,… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“the wise man is self-sufficient, that he can do without friends, not that he desires to do without them. When I say "can," I… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“This, I say, is the highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom, – that deed and word should be in accord, that” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate the many… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to change one’s… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
