Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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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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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
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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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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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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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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
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It's all in your head: you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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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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To the stars through difficulties.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.