Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on happiness
The wish for healing has always been half of health. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on health
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on health
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on health
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on home
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on hope
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on imagination
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on knowledge
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on knowledge
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on men
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on men
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on men
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on men
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on men
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. Lucius Annaeus Seneca on men