Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The best ideas are common property.
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We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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He who is everywhere is nowhere.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
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Everything may happen.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
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Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.