Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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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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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
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You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
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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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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
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What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.