Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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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 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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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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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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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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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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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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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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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. For it has never been in his power to try himself.
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A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.