Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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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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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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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
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What you think is the summit is only a step up
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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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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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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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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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.