Quotes from Seneca the Younger

We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

A hated government does not long survive.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

His head was turned by too great success.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.

Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

While you teach, you learn.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.