Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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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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You talk one way, you live another.
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All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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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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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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Teach the art of living well.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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As the world leads we follow.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Every journey has an end.
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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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)