We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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
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
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For… — 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
A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in… — 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
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well… — 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
