True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhere reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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