Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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As was his language so was his life.
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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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Simple is the language of truth.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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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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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common; and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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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.