Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
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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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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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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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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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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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To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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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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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
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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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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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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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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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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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In every good man a God doth dwell.