The person you are matters more than the place to which you go. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is… — 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
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make… — 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
