Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

- Seneca The Elder

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

- Seneca The Elder

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

- Seneca The Elder

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

- Seneca The Elder

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtu…

- Seneca The Elder

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

- Seneca The Elder

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

- Seneca The Elder

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

- Seneca The Elder

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

- Seneca The Elder