As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is… — 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
