Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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See what daily exercise does for one.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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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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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.