A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation... — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy!… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great… — 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