“Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Do not be interested in the quantity of people who respect and admire you, but in their quality. If bad people dislike… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
“Seneca describes this in an extraordinary passage, in which he astutely observes that most human suffering relates to rumination about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is… — Frederic William Farrar Copy Share Image
“According to Seneca, Chrysippus’ quipped that the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the… — Anonymous 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
“Never have I trusted Fortune,' writes Seneca, 'even when she seemed to be at peace. All her generous bounties - money, office,… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We stand in need of such reflections to comfort us for the loss of some illustrious characters, which in our eyes might… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“And this puts me in mind of that rich gentleman of Rome, who had been solicitous, with great expense, to procure men… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Ernest Hemingway wrote that happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing. However, if we are intelligent yet unhappy, then perhaps we… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
Why, Sir, when I have anything to invent, I never trouble my head about it, as other men do; but presently turn… — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
“I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it… I should be loving sculpture! But I have… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling… — David W. Jones Copy Share Image
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“For this indiscretion Seneca relegates the emperor (Claudius) to a Sisyphean gamester's hell: condemned eternally to pick up the bones and thow… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“In every good person, there lives a god. Which god? We cannot be sure - but it is a god.” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Suspice, etiam si decidunt, magna conantes " "Admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail" "Admira, incluso si caen, a… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
