Seneca the Younger Quotes
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Full of men, vacant of friends.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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What else is nature but God?
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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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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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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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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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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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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.