We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAfter death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus 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 YOUNGERIt’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER