“It is sweet to draw the world down with you when you are perishing.” — Seneca Perishing Copy Share Image
Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you — Seneca Converse Copy Share Image
“In every good person, there lives a god. Which god? We cannot be sure - but it is a god.” — Seneca God Copy Share Image
“that deed and word should be in accord, that a man should be equal to himself under all conditions, and always the… — Seneca Equal Copy Share Image
“If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never… — Seneca Money Copy Share Image
“And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and… — Seneca Spirituality Copy Share Image
“Some vices delight them as being proofs of their prosperity; it seems the part of a man who is very lowly and… — Seneca Wealth Copy Share Image
“Undisturbed by fears and unspoiled by pleasures, we shall be afraid neither of death nor the gods.” — Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“Virtue is not vouchsafed to a soul unless that soul has been trained and taught, and by unremitting practice brought to perfection.” — Seneca Character Copy Share Image
“Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium - Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence.” — Seneca Diligence 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
“every individual can make himself happy. External goods are of trivial importance and without much influence in either direction: prosperity does not… — Seneca Happiness Copy Share Image
“Mankind is perpetually the victim of a pointless and futile martydom, fretting life away in fruitless worries though failure to realise what… — Seneca Failure Copy Share Image
“For we are not summoned according to the paristi register And besides there is no man so old as to make it… — seneca Another day Copy Share Image
“Istam terra de fossam premat, gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet! (As for her, let her be buried deep in earth, and heavy… — Seneca Buried Copy Share Image
“Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom… — Seneca Better man Copy Share Image
“Again, do you call those men leisured who spend many hours at the barber’s simply to cut whatever grew overnight, to have… — Seneca Barber Copy Share Image
“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling… — Seneca Fate Copy Share Image
“Philosophy calls for plain living, but not for penance; and we may perfectly well be plain and neat at the same time.… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“they Whatever can make life truly happy is absolutely good in its own right because it cannot be warped into evil From… — Seneca Confidence Copy Share Image
“Turn to philosophy, therefore, with all your soul, sit at her feet, cherish her; a great distance will then begin to separate… — Seneca Philosophy Copy Share Image
“You are living as if destined to live for ever; your own frailty never occurs to you; you don’t notice how much… — Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough,… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“But both courses are to be avoided; you should not copy the bad simply because they are many, nor should you hate… — Seneca Better man Copy Share Image
“But," comes the reply, "I am being driven from the farm which my father and grandfather owned!" Well? Who owned the land… — Seneca Parenting Copy Share Image
“We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to… — Seneca Children Copy Share Image
“Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind” — Seneca Psychology Copy Share Image
