Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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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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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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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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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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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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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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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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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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No one can have all he desires.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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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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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.