Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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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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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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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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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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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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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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He worships God who knows him.
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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As the world leads we follow.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Every journey has an end.