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 Life 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… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Keeping quiet 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 Stoicism 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… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Angry Copy Share Image
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca About 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 Great man 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Native land Copy Share Image
“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crime Copy Share Image
“Once you have rid yourself of the affliction there, though, every change of scene will become a pleasure. You may be banished… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Change Copy Share Image
“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Foreign travel Copy Share Image
“However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Desire Copy Share Image
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Cannot Copy Share Image
“There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Freedom Copy Share Image
“Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Gratitude Copy Share Image
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Biology Copy Share Image
“What is death? Either a transition or an end. I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Coming to an end Copy Share Image
“what's the use of overcoming opponent after opponent in the wrestling or boxing rings if you can be overcome by your temper?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Boxing Copy Share Image
“Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret. (Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.)-A Wrinkle in Time” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Good man 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 Philosophy Copy Share Image
