“Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Friend Copy Share Image
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Hand Copy Share Image
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Good Copy Share Image
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Birthday Copy Share Image
“What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character Copy Share Image
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Cannot Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Sane Copy Share Image
“You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Money Copy Share Image
“A person teaching and a person learning,' he said, 'should have the same end in view: the improvement of the latter.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Education Copy Share Image
“When a mind is impressionable and has none too firm a hold on what is right, it must be rescued from the… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Conformity Copy Share Image
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Acquaintances Copy Share Image
“All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions,… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Business 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
“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
“Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fickleness Copy Share Image
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit,… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Admiration Copy Share Image
“No one will bring back the years: no one will restore you back to yourself. Life will follow the path it began… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Away with the world’s opinion of you – it’s always unsettled and divided. Away with the pursuits that have occupied the whole… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“Cling, therefore, to this sound and wholesome plan of life; indulge the body just so far as suffices for good health. ...… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Good health Copy Share Image
“So long, in fact, as you remain in ignorance of what to aim at and what to avoid, what is essential and… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Drifting 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
“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Anthem Copy Share Image
“Wild animals run from the dangers they actually see, and once they have escaped them worry no more. We however are tormented… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Animals 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
“Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare diabolicum.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Mistake 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 Acquaintances Copy Share Image
“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Amor Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Craves Copy Share Image