Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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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 poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.
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What you think is the summit is only a step up
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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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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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.