Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Love of action is not industry.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged