Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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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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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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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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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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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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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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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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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.