Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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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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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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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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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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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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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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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.
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
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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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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.