Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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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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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.