Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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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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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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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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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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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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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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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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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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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.