Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
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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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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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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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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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Men practice war; beasts do not.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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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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God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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True love can fear no one.
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What else is nature but God?
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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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.