There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccess is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Be harsh with yourself at times.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
If you judge, investigate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER