Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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