Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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Praise thyself never.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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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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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.