Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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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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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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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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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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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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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
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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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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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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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True love hates and will not bear delay.