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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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 poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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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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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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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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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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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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Truth never perishes.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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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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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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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.
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We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
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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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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.