Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Know thyself; this is the great object.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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You are your choices.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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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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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
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We are at best but stewards of what we falsely call our own; yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of liberality to content it.
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Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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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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During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.
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The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.