Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.
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Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
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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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A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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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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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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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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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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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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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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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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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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That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.
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To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.