Seneca The Younger Quotes

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.