Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
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There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
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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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Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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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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We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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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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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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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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Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
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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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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.