He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of… — 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
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives… — 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
Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune… — 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
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
