Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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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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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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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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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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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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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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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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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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Life is short and art is long.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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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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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
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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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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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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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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?