Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
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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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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
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He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
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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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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.