He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections;… — 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
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our… — 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
We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our… — 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
