Top 995 Quotes & Sayings by Seneca the Younger - Page 16

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Who has more leisure than a worm?

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Life is long if you know how to use it.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

Our words should aim not to please, but to help.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Men learn while they teach.

True love can fear no one.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

We pardon familiar vices.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.

What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

Ignorance is the cause of fear.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]

No crime has been without a precedent.

Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

While crime is punished it yet increases.

That grief is light which can take counsel.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

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.

There is no power greater than true affection.