Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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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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True love can fear no one.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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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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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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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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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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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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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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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.