Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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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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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.
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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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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
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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 acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.