Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
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Light cares speak, great ones are speechless.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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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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Real improvement is of slow growth only.
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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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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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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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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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The most happy ought to wish for death.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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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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For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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.