Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
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We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you