Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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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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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
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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 guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.
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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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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
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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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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.
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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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He worships God who knows him.
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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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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Whatever begins, also ends.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.