Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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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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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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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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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.