Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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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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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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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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Teach the art of living well.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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?