“...sola est quies, mecum ruina cuncta si video abruta; mecum omnia abeant. Trahere cum pereas, libet. (...the only calm for me -… — Seneca Thou art Copy Share Image
“No one dies except on his own day. You are throwing away none of your own time; for what you leave behind… — Seneca Death 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 Money Copy Share Image
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.” — Seneca Poverty 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
“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.” — Seneca Suffering Copy Share Image
True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not… — Seneca God and man Copy Share Image
Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms… — Seneca Birth Copy Share Image
“Why not stop trying to prevent posterity being silent about you? You were born to die, and a silent funeral is less… — Seneca Born to die Copy Share Image
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Of all men, only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure; only they are truly alive; for it is not… — Seneca Philosophy Copy Share Image
“All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselves, through our disdain… — Seneca Birth Copy Share Image
“The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.” — Seneca Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Let no one,' I say, 'who will make me no worthy return for such a loss rob me of a single day;… — Seneca Psychology Copy Share Image
“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime,… — Seneca Astronomy Copy Share Image
“There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.” — Seneca Inspirational Copy Share Image