Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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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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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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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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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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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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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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Simple is the language of truth.
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There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.