Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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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.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short 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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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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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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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.
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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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Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
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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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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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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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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.