Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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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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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
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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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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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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.
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No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.
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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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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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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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.