Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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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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The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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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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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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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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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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Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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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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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .