Seneca The Younger Quotes
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
