Quotes from Seneca

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war

He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me to-day will have somebody to laugh at him to-morrow.

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.

Vice can be learnt, even without a teacher.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

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.