Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
-
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
-
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
-
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
-
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
-
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
-
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
-
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
-
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
-
To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
-
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
-
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
-
Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
-
He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
-
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.
-
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
-
The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
-
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
-
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
-
The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
-
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
-
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
-
Money has never yet made anyone rich.
-
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.