Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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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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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.