Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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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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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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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 really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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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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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
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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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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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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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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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Men's language is as their lives.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.