Quotes from Seneca the Younger

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.

Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.

The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.

The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

What is true belongs to me!

Truth never perishes.

Simple is the language of truth.

The expression of truth is simplicity.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.