“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
“As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
“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
“Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Light Copy Share Image
“If we could be satisfied with anything, we should have been satisfied long ago.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
“I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“There is therefore no advice—and of such advice no one can have too much—which I would rather give you than this: that… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Irritated 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
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
“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 the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Confident Copy Share Image
“I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
“Humanity is the quality which stops one being arrogant towards one's fellows, or being acrimonious.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Arrogant Copy Share Image
“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
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Guilt Copy Share Image
“There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Acquisition 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 Copy Share Image
“It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Conscience 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 Enemy 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
“No man can be sane who searches for what will injure him in place of what is best.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
“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 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
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
“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
“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
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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 Copy Share Image
“It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca 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
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Business Copy Share Image
