Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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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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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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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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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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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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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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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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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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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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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.