Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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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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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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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 person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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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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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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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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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The miserable are sacred.
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I would rather be sick than idle.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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Find a path or make one.
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No one can have all he desires.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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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