Seneca Quotes
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
