Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.
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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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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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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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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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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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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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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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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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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.