Seneca the Younger Quotes
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Who has more leisure than a worm?
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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 world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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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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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
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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.