Inspirational Quotes by Seneca the Younger · Page 5

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.

— Seneca the Younger

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

— Seneca the Younger

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

— Seneca the Younger

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

— Seneca the Younger

The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

— Seneca the Younger

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

— Seneca the Younger

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

— Seneca the Younger

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

— Seneca the Younger

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without…

— Seneca the Younger

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

— Seneca the Younger

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

— Seneca the Younger

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

— Seneca the Younger

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

— Seneca the Younger

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.

— Seneca the Younger

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

— Seneca the Younger

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

— Seneca the Younger

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.

— Seneca the Younger

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

— Seneca the Younger

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

— Seneca the Younger

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

— Seneca the Younger

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

— Seneca the Younger

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

— Seneca the Younger

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

— Seneca the Younger

This is the reason we cannot complain of life: it keeps no one against his will.

— Seneca the Younger

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.

— Seneca the Younger

He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

— Seneca the Younger

...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

— Seneca the Younger

The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

— Seneca the Younger

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

— Seneca the Younger

If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

— Seneca the Younger

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

— Seneca the Younger

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

— Seneca the Younger

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

— Seneca the Younger

There is no power greater than true affection.

— Seneca the Younger

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

— Seneca the Younger