Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — 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
