Wells Quotes by Seneca the Younger

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

— Seneca the Younger

Teach the art of living well.

— Seneca the Younger

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

— Seneca the Younger

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a…

— Seneca the Younger

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well…

— Seneca the Younger

He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

— Seneca the Younger

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Seneca the Younger

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

— Seneca the Younger

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained,…

— Seneca the Younger

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his…

— Seneca the Younger

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where…

— Seneca the Younger

Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long…

— Seneca the Younger

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For…

— Seneca the Younger

A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of…

— Seneca the Younger

My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in…

— Seneca the Younger

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually…

— Seneca the Younger

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a…

— Seneca the Younger

Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.

— Seneca the Younger

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

— Seneca the Younger

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

— Seneca the Younger