Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
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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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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.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
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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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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.