Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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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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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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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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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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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.