Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
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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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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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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
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It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
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As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
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Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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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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A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.