So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — 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
