Best Seneca the Younger Lines
- All cruelty springs from weakness. All
- Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. Avarice
- Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it. End
- A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it. Action
- How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? Action
- 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… Action
- Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us. Action
- To be everywhere is to be nowhere. Action
- We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which… Action
- You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good. Action
- Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided. Always Unsettled
- There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her… Anyone
- Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of… Administers
- The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. Acquired
- Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it. All
- Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear. Bother
- Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying… Aside
- When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation. Dry
- Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. Inspirational
- Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our… Brings
- Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere. Cannot Know
- Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity. Drunkenness
- See what daily exercise does for one. Daily
- So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments. Beyond
- For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold. Beneath
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