Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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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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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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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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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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As many servants so many enemies.
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No one can have all he desires.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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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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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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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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Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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The miserable are sacred.