Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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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 suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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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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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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Teach the art of living well.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
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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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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.