Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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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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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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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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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Life is short and art is long.
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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.