Blessing Quote by Seneca the Younger

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

— Seneca the Younger

It is for the superfluous we sweat.

— Seneca the Younger

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is…

— Seneca the Younger

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

— Seneca the Younger

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

— Seneca the Younger

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

— Seneca the Younger

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is…

— Seneca the Younger

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

— Seneca the Younger

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

— Seneca the Younger

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life…

— Seneca the Younger

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

— Seneca the Younger