Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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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 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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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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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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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
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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 foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.