Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality — Seneca Fear 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
“So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand. — Seneca Advice Copy Share Image
“we perish because we follow other men's examples: we should be cured of this if we were to disengage ourselves from the… — Seneca Disengage 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
“How much better to follow a straight course and attain a goal where the words "pleasant" and "honourable" have the same meaning!” — Seneca Goals Copy Share Image
“Similarly, too rich a soil makes the grain fall flat, branches break down under too heavy a load, excessive productiveness does not… — Seneca Rich Soil Copy Share Image
“I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I… — Seneca Anomie Copy Share Image
“No one," he says, "leaves this world in a different manner from one who has just been born." That is not true;… — Seneca Nature Copy Share Image
“we are frightened at uncertainties, just as if they were certain. We observe no moderation. The slightest thing turns the scales and… — Seneca Anxiety Copy Share Image
“We are, therefore, seeking how the mind can follow a smooth and steady course, well disposed to itself, happily regarding its own… — Seneca Peace Copy Share Image
“Despise everything that useless toil creates as an ornament and an object of beauty. And reflect that nothing except the soul is… — Seneca Beauty Copy Share Image
“Socrates made the same remark to one who complained; he said: "Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing… — Seneca Socrates Copy Share Image
“Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have… — Seneca Death Copy Share Image
“And what’s so bad about your being deprived of that?... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have… — Seneca Deprived 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
“What then? Shall I not follow in the footsteps of my predecessors? I shall indeed use the old road, but if I… — Seneca Journey Copy Share Image
“All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is… — Seneca Anxiety Copy Share Image
“The following also was nobly spoken by someone or other, for it is doubtful who the author was; they asked him what… — Seneca Art Copy Share Image
“Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have… — Seneca Change Copy Share Image
“In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of… — Seneca Aftermath Copy Share Image
“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” — Seneca Insufficient Copy Share Image
“We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness.” — Seneca Strength Copy Share Image
“Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.” — Seneca Boredom Copy Share Image
“There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.” — Seneca Inspirational Copy Share Image
“The first thing which philosophy undertakes to give is fellow-feeling with all men; in other words, sympathy and sociability.” — Seneca Fellow feeling Copy Share Image
“Dum inter homines sumus, colamus humanitatem" "As long as we are among humans, let us be humane” — Seneca Humane Copy Share Image
“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the… — Seneca Goodness Copy Share Image
“There is no worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.” — Seneca Vice Copy Share Image
“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.” — Seneca Admiration Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as good or bad fortune for the individual; we live in common.” — Seneca Bad fortune Copy Share Image
“...there is nothing the wise man does reluctantly. He escapes necessity because he wills what necessity is going to force on him.” — Seneca Wisdom Copy Share Image