Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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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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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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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.
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Men's language is as their lives.
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Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
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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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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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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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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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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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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Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.