Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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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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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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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 many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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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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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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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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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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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.