Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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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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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Every journey has an end.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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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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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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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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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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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.