Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man will not pardon any crime that ought to be punished, but he will accomplish, in a nobler way, all that is sought in pardoning. He will spare some and watch over some, because of their youth, and others on account of their ignorance. His clemency will not fall short of justice, but will fulfill it perfectly.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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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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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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As the world leads we follow.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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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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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.