...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
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best… — 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
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining… — 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
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
