Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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 bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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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 do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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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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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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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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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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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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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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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.