Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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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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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
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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 man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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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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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
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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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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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Expediency often silences justice.
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We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen.