Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
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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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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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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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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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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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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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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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I would rather be sick than idle.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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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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Find a path or make one.
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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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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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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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.