Seneca quotes - page 18

It takes the whole life to learn how to live, and -- what will perhaps amaze you more -- it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. (Seneca)
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go. View quote
Seneca
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. View quote
Seneca
Speech is the mirror of the mind. View quote
Seneca
What were once vices are the fashion of the day. View quote
Seneca
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way. View quote
Seneca
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift. View quote
Seneca
It is not goodness to be better than the very worst. View quote
Seneca
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy. View quote
Seneca
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. View quote
Seneca
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other. (Seneca)
Economy is in itself a source of great revenue. View quote
Seneca
A good mind possesses a kingdom. View quote
Seneca
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer. View quote
Seneca
Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man. View quote
Seneca
Virtue is that perfect good which is the complement of a happy life the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. View quote
Seneca
Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before. View quote
Seneca
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself. View quote
Seneca
If virtue precede us every step will be safe. View quote
Seneca
You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive. View quote
Seneca
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws. (Seneca)
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. View quote
Seneca
The whole concord of this world consists in discords. View quote
Seneca
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity. View quote
Seneca
We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do But grapple with her. View quote
Seneca