Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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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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To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.