Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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Life without the courage to die is slavery.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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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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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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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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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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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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Praise thyself never.
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What else is nature but God?
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.