Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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Men practice war; beasts do not.
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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Love of action is not industry.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Life is short and art is long.
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.