Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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What else is nature but God?
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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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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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.