Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
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You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.