Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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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 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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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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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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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.