Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
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What else is nature but God?
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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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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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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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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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Praise thyself never.
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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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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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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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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.