Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
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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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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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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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Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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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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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.