Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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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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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
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As the world leads we follow.
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There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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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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Every journey has an end.
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What you think is the summit is only a step up
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.