Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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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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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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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 much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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The worse a person is the less he feels 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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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.