Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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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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Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.
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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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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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What you think is the summit is only a step up