Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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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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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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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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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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He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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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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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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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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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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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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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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Find a path or make one.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.