Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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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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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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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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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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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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As was his language so was his life.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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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.