Seneca The Younger Quotes
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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.
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 best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
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
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
