Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.
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Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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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.