Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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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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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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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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No one can have all he desires.
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The miserable are sacred.
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Find a path or make one.
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I would rather be sick than idle.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.