Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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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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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
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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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The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
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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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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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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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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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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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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.