Some quotes by Seneca
Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
If you would wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself.
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
If you judge, investigate.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one’s impulses.
He who is brave is free.
Every guilty person is his own hangman.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
If you wished to be loved, love.
He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
All cruelty springs from weakness.
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
One should count each day a separate life.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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