Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
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There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. For it has never been in his power to try himself.
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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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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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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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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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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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There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.