“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“But only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“But nothing will help quite so much as just keeping quiet, talking with other people as little as possible, with yourself as much as… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver as if… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
