“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Poor Copy Share Image
“If i had not been admitted to these studies it would not have been worth while to have been born.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Admitted Copy Share Image
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Harbor Copy Share Image
“Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Business Copy Share Image
“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crisis 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
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 Difficult Copy Share Image
“Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Every day Copy Share Image
“It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Beauty Copy Share Image
“Ubicumque ex aequo ad caelum erigitur acies, paribus intervallis omnia divina ab omnibus humanis distant - From whatever point on the earth's… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Heaven Copy Share Image
“Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Confidence Copy Share Image
“Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ideas Copy Share Image
“Do not run hither and thither and distract yourself by changing your abode; for such restlessness is the sign of a disordered… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Restlessness Copy Share Image
“Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault—those whom they have injured they… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Arrogant Copy Share Image
“To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crime Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Diabolical Copy Share Image
“The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Art of life Copy Share Image
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuit No great talent without an element of madness” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Genius Copy Share Image
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Aim Copy Share Image
“It is uncertain where Death will await you; there expect it everywhere.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Adversity Copy Share Image
“There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Friendship Copy Share Image
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Before Copy Share Image
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Frightened Copy Share Image
“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Existed Copy Share Image
“The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character Copy Share Image
“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Harder Copy Share Image
“I am loath to call clemency what was, rather, the exhaustion of cruelty.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Clemency Copy Share Image
“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Alexander Copy Share Image
“Prove - and an easy task it is - that so-called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Crime 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
“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Returned Copy Share Image
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Land Copy Share Image
“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Long Copy Share Image
