Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Find a path or make one.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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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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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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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.