Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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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.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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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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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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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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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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The man who can be compelled knows not how to die.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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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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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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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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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.