Seneca The Younger Quotes

We pardon familiar vices.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

Successful villany is called virtue.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

The world itself is too small for the covetous.

There is no evil without its compensation.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

To meditate an injury is to commit one.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

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.

If you wish to be loved, love.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.