Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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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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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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He worships God who knows him.
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
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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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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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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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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.