Seneca’s virtue shows forth so live and vigorous in his writings, and the defense is so clear there against some of these imputations, as that of his wealth and excessive spending, that I would not believe any testimony to the contrary.
The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.
As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.
We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.
We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn .
The day of your birth leads you to death as well as to life .
As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.
Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.
I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.
All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.
Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself.
Some impose upon the world that they believe that which they do not; others, more in number, make themselves believe that they believe, not being able to penetrate into what it is to believe.
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
Man in sooth is a marvellous, vain, fickle, and unstable subject.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.
Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs.