Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
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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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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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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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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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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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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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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .