Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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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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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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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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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved