Seneca the Younger Quotes
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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You are your choices.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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Resistance to oppression is second nature.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
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If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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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 intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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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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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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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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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
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The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.