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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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
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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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The abundance of books is distraction
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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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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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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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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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
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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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There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
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It's all in your head: you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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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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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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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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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.