Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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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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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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True love can fear no one.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
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Whom they have injured they also hate.
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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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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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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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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.