Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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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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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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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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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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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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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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While we wait for life, life passes
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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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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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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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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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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.