Seneca Quotes
Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.
It takes all of our life to learn how to live, and – something that may surprise you more – it takes just as long to learn how to die.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
Sorrowers tend to avoid what they are most fond of and try to give vent to their grief.
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool
If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.
Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.
Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Only a mind that is deeply stirred can utter something noble and beyond the power of others.
Nūllum magnum ingenium sine mixtūrā dēmentiae fuitNo great talent without an element of madness
We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole
A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.
The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
...certain people have good, ordinary blood and others have an animated, lively sort of blood that comes to the face quickly.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.
What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
The good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.
What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
