Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Fine conduct is always spontaneous.
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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?
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The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
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Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
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Real improvement is of slow growth only.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.
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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Golden roofs break men's rest.
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
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He who is penitent is almost innocent.
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For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
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Don't stumble over something behind you.
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If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.