Philosophy is the science which considers truth.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

Should a man live underground, and there converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the several glories of the heaven and earth, he would immediately pronounce them the work of such a Being as we define God to be.

A change in the shape of the body creates a change in the state of the soul.

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is in some sense, is to lose your soul.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.