Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As the world leads we follow.
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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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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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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
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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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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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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
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The abundance of books is distraction
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Every journey has an end.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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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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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.