Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
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The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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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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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.
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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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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Simple is the language of truth.
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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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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.