Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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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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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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Find a path or make one.
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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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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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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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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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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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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.