Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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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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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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Teach the art of living well.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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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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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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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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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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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.