Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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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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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.