Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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