Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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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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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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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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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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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.