Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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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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As the world leads we follow.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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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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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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Every journey has an end.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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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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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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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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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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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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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.