Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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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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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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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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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
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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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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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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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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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No one can have all he desires.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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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 first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.