Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
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Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
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On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
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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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The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.