Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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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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Successful villany is called virtue.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.
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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
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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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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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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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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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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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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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It's all in your head: you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
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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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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.