Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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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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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.
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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.