Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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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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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.
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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.