Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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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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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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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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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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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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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.