Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening — Seneca God Copy Share Image
“There is no favorable wind for the sailor who doesn’t know where to go” — Seneca River 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
“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 worse penalty for vice than the fact that it is dissatisfied with itself and all its fellows.” — Seneca Vice 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 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
“You should, I need hardly say, live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell… — Seneca 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
“In protecting their wealth men are tight-fisted, but when it comes to the matter of time, in the case of the one… — Seneca Matter of time Copy Share Image
“If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued you’ll always fancy yourself to be short of the things you… — Seneca Fortune Copy Share Image
“But consider whether you may not get more help from the customary method[1] than from that which is now commonly called a… — Seneca Good old days Copy Share Image
“let us keep to the way which Nature has mapped out for us, and let us not swerve therefrom. If we follow… — Seneca Life 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
“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
“Istam terra de fossam premat, gravisque terrus impio capiti incubet! (As for her, let her be buried deep in earth, and heavy… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“Therefore continually remind yourself, Lucilius, how many ambitions you have attained. When you see many ahead of you, think how many are… — Seneca Life Copy Share Image
“Still, my determination to put your moral strength of purpose to the test is such that I propose to give even you… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more. What difference does… — Seneca Investing 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
“Hence, the wise man accustoms himself to coming trouble, lightening by long reflection the evils which others lighten by long endurance. We… — Seneca 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
“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
“I’ve come across people who say that there is a sort of inborn restlessness in the human spirit and an urge to… — Seneca Human spirit Copy Share Image
“Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — Seneca Opinions Copy Share Image