Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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You talk one way, you live another.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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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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A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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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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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
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When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.
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The abundance of books is distraction