Best 924 quotes of Seneca The Younger on MyQuotes

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

All art is but imitation of nature.

A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.

A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

A hated government does not long survive.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

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

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is a fool; similarly, only an absolute fool values a man according to his clothes, or according to his position, which after all is only something we wear like clothing.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

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

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

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

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.