Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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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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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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Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
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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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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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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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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
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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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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.