Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Love of action is not industry.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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True love can fear no one.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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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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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 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 language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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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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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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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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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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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's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.