Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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 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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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
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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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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.
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You talk one way, you live another.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
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Teach the art of living well.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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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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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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He worships God who knows him.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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As the world leads we follow.
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.