Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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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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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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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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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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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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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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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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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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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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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.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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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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Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.