Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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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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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
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Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.