“The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character 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 Travel Copy Share Image
“If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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 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
“The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Character Copy Share Image
“But only philosophy will wake us; only philosophy will shake us out of that heavy sleep. Devote yourself entirely to her. You're… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Philosophy Copy Share Image
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Acquisition Copy Share Image
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Death 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
“People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
“Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Guilt 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Ethics Copy Share Image
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Sapiens Copy Share Image
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Little Copy Share Image
“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Friendship Copy Share Image
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Imagination Copy Share Image
“Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Alexander Copy Share Image
“We are indeed apt to ascribe certain faults to the place or to the time; but those faults will follow us, no… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Time Copy Share Image
