Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
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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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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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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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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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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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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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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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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.