Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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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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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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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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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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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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We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
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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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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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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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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 arts are the servant; wisdom its master.