Seneca the Younger Quotes
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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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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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
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To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand
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Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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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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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.
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The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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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 unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.