Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What else is nature but God?
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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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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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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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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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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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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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.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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Love of action is not industry.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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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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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.