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Seneca The Younger Quotes
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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 (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint? (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
A good person dyes events with his own color... and turns whatever happens to his own benefit (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel... You are called in to help the unhappy (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow’s (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man’s life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness... she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men’s minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one’s decency, can be called clothes... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife’s body (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves (Seneca The Younger Quotes)