Quotes by Seneca

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)

One should count each day a separate life.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.