Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.
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No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
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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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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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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
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Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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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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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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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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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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Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
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It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
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Whom they have injured they also hate.
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Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.