Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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People do not die - they kill themselves.
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
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Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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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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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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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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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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True love can fear no one.
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Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
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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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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
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The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
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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.