Seneca Quotes

The miserable are sacred.

Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

True love can fear no one.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.