Seneca the Younger Quotes
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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He worships God who knows him.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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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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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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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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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There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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Expediency often silences justice.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
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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!