“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — 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… — 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… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Our Stoic philosophers, as you know, maintain that there are two elements in the universe from which all things are derived, namely… — 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
“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
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” — 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
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