Seneca The Younger Quotes

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.

If you would judge, understand.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

For greed, all nature is too little.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

Some cures are worse than the dangers they combat.

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.

What else is nature but God?

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

Real improvement is of slow growth only.

The part of life which we really live is short.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

A troubled countenance oft discloses much.