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Occasional reflections on the wisdom of Ancient Greek and Roman philosophers.
When faced with anything painful or pleasurable, anything bringing glory or disrepute, realize that the crisis is now, that the Olympics hav...
If I admire the interpretation [of a philosophical treatise], I have turned into a literary critic instead of a philosopher, the only differ...
Someone bathes in haste; don’t say he bathes badly, but in haste. Someone drinks a lot of wine; don’t say he drinks badly, but a lot. Until...
The following are non-sequiturs: ‘I am richer, therefore superior to you’; or ‘I am a better speaker, therefore a better person, than you.’
Everything has two handles: one by which it may be borne, another by which it cannot. If your brother acts unjustly, do not lay hold on the...
Whenever anyone criticizes or wrongs you, remember that they are only doing or saying what they think is right. They cannot be guided by you...
As you are careful when you walk not to step on a nail or turn your ankle, so you should take care not to do any injury to your character at...
When you’re called upon to speak, then speak, but never about banalities like gladiators, horses, sports, food and drink – common-place stuf...
When somebody’s wife or child dies, to a man we all routinely say, ‘Well, that’s part of life.’ But if one of our own family is involved, th...
If I can make money while remaining honest, trustworthy and dignified, show me how and I will do it. But if you expect me to sacrifice my ow...
Remember, it is not enough to be hit or insulted to be harmed, you must believe that you are being harmed. If someone succeeds in provoking...
When you see anyone weeping for grief, either that his son has gone abroad or that he has suffered in his affairs, take care not to be overc...
You have to realize, it isn’t easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means y...
Provoked by the sight of a handsome man or a beautiful woman, you will discover within you the contrary power of self-restraint. Faced with...
Don’t hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.
What quality belongs to you? The intelligent use of impressions. If you use impressions as nature prescribes, go ahead and indulge your prid...
It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
When you’re about to embark on any action, remind yourself what kind of action it is. If you’re going out to take a bath, set before your mi...
If you kiss your child or your wife, say to yourself that it is a human being that you're kissing; and then, if one of them should die, you...
So make a practice at once of saying to every strong impression: ‘An impression is all you are, not the source of the impression.’ Then test...
Some things are up to us, while others are not. Up to us are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever is of our own d...
Despise poverty; no man lives as poor as he was born: despise pain; either it will cease or you will cease: despise death; it either ends yo...
I have placed every good thing within your own breasts: it is your good fortune not to need any good fortune. Yet many things befall you whi...
The fates guide us, and the length of every person’s days is decided at the first hour of their birth: every cause depends upon some earlier...
To be always prosperous, and to pass through life without a twinge of mental distress, is to remain ignorant of one half of nature. You are...
Good people ought to act so as not to fear troubles and difficulties, nor to lament their hard fate, to take in good part whatever befalls t...
The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of a brave person; for the mind of someone brave maintains its balance and throws its own...
Seneca presents an argument from design to conclude that the universe is rationally and providentially arranged, just like Cleanthes, Chrysi...
It does good also to take walks out of doors, that our spirits may be raised and refreshed by the open air and fresh breeze. Sometimes we ga...
We ought therefore to bring ourselves into such a state of mind that all the vices of the vulgar may not appear hateful to us, but merely ri...
Zeno, the chief of our school, when he heard the news of a shipwreck, in which all his property had been lost, remarked, “Fortune bids me fo...
He who does many things often puts himself in Fortune’s power, and it is safest not to tempt her often, but always to remember her existence...
We must limit the running to and fro which most people practice, rambling about houses, theaters, and marketplaces. They mind other peoples’...
The next point to these will be to take care that we do not labour for what is vain, or labour in vain: that is to say, neither to desire wh...
For by looking forward to everything which can happen as though it would happen to us, we take the sting out of all evils, which can make no...
In every station of life you will find amusements, relaxations, and enjoyments; that is, provided you be willing to make light of evils rath...
What is the use of possessing numberless books and libraries, whose titles their owner can hardly read through in a lifetime? A student is o...
Let us accustom ourselves to set aside mere outward show, and to measure things by their uses, not by their ornamental trappings.
The best amount of property to have is that which is enough to keep us from poverty, and which yet is not far removed from it.
If you compare all the other ills from which we suffer—deaths, sicknesses, fears, regrets, endurance of pains and labors—with those miseries...
We should choose for our friends those who are, as far as possible, free from strong desires: for vices are contagious, and pass from someon...
No good is done by forcing one’s mind to engage in uncongenial work: it is vain to struggle against Nature.
We ought first to examine our own selves, next the business which we propose to transact, next those for whose sake or in whose company we t...
We ought therefore, to expand or contract ourselves according as the state of things presents itself to us, or as Fortune offers us opportun...
The services of a good citizen are never thrown away: he does good by being heard and seen, by his expression, his gestures, his silent dete...
Often a man who is very old in years has nothing beyond his age by which he can prove that he has lived a long time.
Seneca explains that there are many ways to help improve the human cosmopolis: one can be a candidate for public office, a defense lawyer, o...
How long are we to go on doing the same thing?
Hence men undertake aimless wanderings and travel along distant shores, trying to soothe that fickleness of disposition which always is diss...
What you desire, to be undisturbed, is a great thing, nay, the greatest thing of all, and one which raises a man almost to the level of a go...