Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable… — 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 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
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
