Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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Find a path or make one.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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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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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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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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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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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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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.