Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
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We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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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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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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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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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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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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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.