Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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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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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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A hated government does not long survive.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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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 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 king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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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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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.