Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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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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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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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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Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
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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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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
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Life is short and art is long.
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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.