Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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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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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
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Teach the art of living well.
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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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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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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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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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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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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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We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.