Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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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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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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Crime requires further crime to conceal it.
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Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.