Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
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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 bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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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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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.