Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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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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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
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The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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Truth never perishes.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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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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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.