Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
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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.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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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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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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As was his language so was his 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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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.