Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
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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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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
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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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Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
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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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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
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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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Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.