Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The abundance of books is distraction
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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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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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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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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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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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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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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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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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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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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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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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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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.