Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.
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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
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No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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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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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.
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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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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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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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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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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.