Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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A hated government does not long survive.
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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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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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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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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Love of action is not industry.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
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Do what you should, not what you may.