Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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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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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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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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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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Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
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Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.
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The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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 mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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A hated government does not long survive.
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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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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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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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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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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.