Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it… — 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
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
