Seneca The Younger Quotes - Page 16

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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

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

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

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

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

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

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.

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

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

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

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

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

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

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