Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who is penitent is almost innocent.
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Real improvement is of slow growth only.
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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
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It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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The most happy ought to wish for death.
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It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
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If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.