Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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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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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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 largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
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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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All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.