Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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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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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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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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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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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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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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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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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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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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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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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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Everything hangs on one's thinking.