“There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn’t know where to go” — Seneca River Copy Share Image
“You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?” — Seneca Dying Copy Share Image
“Epicurus: “If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be… — Seneca Epicurus Copy Share Image
“There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring.” — Seneca Gladiators Copy Share Image
“Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity.” — Seneca Difficulties Copy Share Image
“Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” — Seneca Adversity Copy Share Image
“Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“weigh carefully your hopes as well as your fears, and whenever all the elements are in doubt, decide in your own favour;… — Seneca Fear Copy Share Image
“Poverty will keep for you your true and tried friends; you will be rid of the men who were not seeking you… — Seneca Poverty Copy Share Image
“How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent… — Seneca Friend Copy Share Image
“The belly will not listen to advice; it makes demands, it importunes. And yet it is not a troublesome creditor; you can… — Seneca Owe Merely Copy Share Image
“What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands… — Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself for difficult times; while fortune is bestowing favors on… — Seneca Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
“But it is one thing to remember, another to know. Remembering is merely safeguarding something entrusted to the memory; knowing, however, means… — Seneca Knowing Copy Share Image
“You must set your hands to tasks which you can finish or at least hope to finish, and avoid those which get… — Seneca Finish Copy Share Image
“The supreme ideal does not call for any external aids. It is homegrown, wholly self-developed. Once it starts looking outside itself for… — Seneca Ideal Copy Share Image
“You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win… — Seneca Psychology Copy Share Image
“No one is despised by others unless he be previously despised by himself: a groveling and abject mind may fall an easy… — Seneca Psychology Copy Share Image
“Everywhere means nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.… — Seneca Acquaintance Copy Share Image
“Hence, the wise man accustoms himself to coming trouble, lightening by long reflection the evils which others lighten by long endurance. We… — Seneca Knew Copy Share Image
“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their… — Seneca Desire Copy Share Image
“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for… — Seneca Drink Copy Share Image
“And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself… — Seneca Fearful Copy Share Image
“Is there anything more ridiculous than a person talking with certitude about the future? Such people devote their energy on creating a… — Seneca Better life Copy Share Image
“Would you say that that man is at leisure who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a… — Seneca Nature Copy Share Image