Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger — 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
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if… — 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
