Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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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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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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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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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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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.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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No one can have all he desires.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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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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Mercy often inflicts death.
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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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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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.