Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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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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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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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
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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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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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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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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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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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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.