Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable… — 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
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen,… — 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
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
