“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Limiting one’s desires actually helps to cure one of fear. ‘Cease to hope … and you will cease to fear.’ … Widely… — 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
