Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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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.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Truth never perishes.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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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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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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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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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.