Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Everything in art is but a copy of nature.
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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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Love of action is not industry.
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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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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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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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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.