Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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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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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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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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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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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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The miserable are sacred.
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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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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Find a path or make one.
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I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.