Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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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 man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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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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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
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Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
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What you think is the summit is only a step up
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.