Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
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Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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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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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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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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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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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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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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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.