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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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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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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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
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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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No one can have all he desires.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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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 is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
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You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.
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What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.