Seneca the Younger Quotes
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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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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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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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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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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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.