No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Character, Wisdom
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Shame
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Death, Wisdom
Love of bustle is not industry.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Try, Love
The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Fate
A great step towards independence is good humored stomach
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Independence
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Purpose
If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Anxiety, Fear
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Action, Habit, Honor
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Birthdays, Eternity, Death
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Advice
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Philosophy
Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself?—Subject thyself to thy reason.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Reason
You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Learning, Wisdom, Success, Modesty
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Action, Courage, Difficulty, Risk, Virtues, Perspective, Bravery
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Worry, Anxiety
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Sin
See what daily exercise does for one.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Energy
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts—which someone can!
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Action
No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Concentration, Focus
Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Modesty
The mind unlearns with difficulty what has long been impressed on it.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Difficulty
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Mind, The Mind
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the Gods.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Energy, Alcohol, Madness, Alcoholism, Society
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Life
The foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Conscience
One crime has to be concealed by another.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Crime
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Topics: Money
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Pliny the Younger Roman Senator, Writer
- Cicero Roman Philosopher
- Seneca the Elder (Marcus Annaeus Seneca) Roman Rhetorician
- Petronius Roman Courtier
- Martial Ancient Roman Latin Poet
- Persius Roman Poet
- Lucretius Roman Epicurean Philosopher
- Pliny the Elder Roman Scholar
- Juvenal Roman Poet
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Roman Poet
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