Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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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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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
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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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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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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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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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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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Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
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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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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
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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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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.