Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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What else is nature but God?
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Full of men, vacant of friends.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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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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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.