Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
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Truth never perishes.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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Men practice war; beasts do not.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The best cure for anger is delay.