Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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True love can fear no one.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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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.