Seneca Quotes

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

qualis quisque sit scies, si quemadmodum laudet, quemadmodum laudetur aspexeris.

postea noli rogare quod inpetrare nolueris.

Sola virtus praestat gaudium perpetuum, securum; etiam si quid obstat, nubium modo intervenit, quae infra feruntur nec umquam diem vincunt.

I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.

That you may know that they whom anger possesses are not sane, look at their appearance; for as there are distinct symptoms which mark madmen, such as a bold and menacing air, a gloomy brow, a stern face

The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.

Would you really know what philosophy offers to humanity? Philosophy offers counsel.

He who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than necessary.

Upon nothing am I more strongly resolved than not to change my course of life to suit your opinion.

All cruelty springs from weakness

When we leave you and assemble together by ourselves, we talk freely about his sayings and doings, treating them with the respect which they deserve: in your presence deep silence is observed about him, and thus you lose that greatest of pleasures, the hearing the praises of your son, which I doubt not you would be willing to hand down to all future ages, had you the means of so doing, even at the cost of your own life.

Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus. Satis longa vita.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

Magna pars hominum est quae non peccatis irascitur, sed peccantibus.