Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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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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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
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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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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.