Seneca, Letters From A Stoic Quotes
The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.
A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.
Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.
The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.
However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.
A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.
Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.
There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with
Reflect that nothing merits admiration except thespirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind