Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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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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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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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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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
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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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Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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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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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.