Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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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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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
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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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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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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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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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Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
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Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
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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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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What if a man save my life with a draught that was prepared to poison me? The providence of the issue does not at all discharge the obliquity of the intent. And the same reason holds good even in religion itself. It is not the incense, or the offering that is acceptable to God, but the purity and devotion of the worshipper.
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We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
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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.