Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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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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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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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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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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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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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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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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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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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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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.
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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.