Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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Full of men, vacant of friends.
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!
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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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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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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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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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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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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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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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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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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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No man ever became wise by chance.