Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
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This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
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To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.
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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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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
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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.