Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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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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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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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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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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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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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge 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 expression of truth is simplicity.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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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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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.