Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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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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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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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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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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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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The condition of all who are preoccupied is wretched, but most wretched is the condition of those who labor at preoccupations that are not even their own, who regulate their sleep by that of another, their walk by the pace of another, who are under orders in case of the freest things in the world-loving and hating. If these wish to know how short their life is, let them reflect how small a part of it is their own.
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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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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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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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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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.