Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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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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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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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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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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Men's language is as their lives.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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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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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
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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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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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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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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.