Quotes from Seneca the Younger

Mercy often inflicts death.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

No one can have all he desires.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.