Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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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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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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Truth never perishes.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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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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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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Life is short and art is long.
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Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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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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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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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.
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.