Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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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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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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You talk one way, you live another.
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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Every journey has an end.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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What you think is the summit is only a step up
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Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
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Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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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.