Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Expediency often silences justice.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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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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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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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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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
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As the world leads we follow.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none