Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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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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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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What else is nature but God?
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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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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Praise thyself never.
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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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This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.