Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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As the world leads we follow.
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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
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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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Men's language is as their lives.
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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.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
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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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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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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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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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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.