Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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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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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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True love can fear no one.
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After death there is nothing.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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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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A hated government does not long survive.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.