Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.