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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.”
“That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.”
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
“Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.”
“You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.”
“Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.”
“Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.”
“Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.”
“It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.”
“Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.”
“This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.”
“Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain”
“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.”
“Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.”
“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”
“Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.”
“It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
“True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.”
“The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.”