Quotes from Seneca the Younger

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.

What else is nature but God?

No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.