Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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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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It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
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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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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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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
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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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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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After death there is nothing.
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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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Injustice never rules forever.
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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.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.