Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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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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The miserable are sacred.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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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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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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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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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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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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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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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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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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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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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.