Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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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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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
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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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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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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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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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You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.