Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
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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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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
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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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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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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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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Real improvement is of slow growth only.
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He who is penitent is almost innocent.
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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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The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.
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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
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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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Golden roofs break men's rest.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Don't stumble over something behind you.
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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The most happy ought to wish for death.
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If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.