Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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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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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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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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A hated government does not long survive.
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It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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After death there is nothing.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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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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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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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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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.