Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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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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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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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 want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand