Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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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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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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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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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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.
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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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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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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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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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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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Praise thyself never.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.