Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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A hated government does not long survive.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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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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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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True love can fear no one.
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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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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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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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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.