Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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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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Truth never perishes.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.