Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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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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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Every journey has an end.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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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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True love can fear no one.