“Throw aside all hindrances and give up your time to attaining a sound mind” — Seneca Psychology Copy Share Image
“There is no need to complain of particular grievances, for life in its entirety is lamentable.” — Seneca Inspirational 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
“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.” — Seneca 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
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 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
“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
People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – the superfluous things that wear our togas threadbare, that force us to… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Let us be brave in the face of hazards. Let us not fear wrongs, or wounds, or bonds, or poverty. And what… — Seneca Brave 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 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
“And what’s so bad about your being deprived of that?... All things seem unbearable to people who have become spoilt, who have… — Seneca 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
“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
“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
“We must limit the running to and fro which most men practise, rambling about houses, theatres, and marketplaces. They mind other men's… — Seneca 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
“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
“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
“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
“Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath… — Seneca Copy Share Image