Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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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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I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
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No one can have all he desires.
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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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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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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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As many servants so many enemies.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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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 miserable are sacred.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.