Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with 'nature's laws', and secondly, resigning himself completely and uncomplainingly to whatever fate may send him. Only by living thus, and not setting too high a value on things which can at any moment be taken away from him, can he discover that true, unshakeable peace and contentment to which ambition, luxury and above all avarice are among the greatest obstacles.
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
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Expediency often silences justice.