Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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He worships God who knows him.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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After death there is nothing.
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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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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.