Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
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The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
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Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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Who has more leisure than a worm?
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This life is only a prelude to eternity.
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.