Top 25 Quotes by Seneca the Younger of 1124 - Page 9

After death there is nothing.

After Death

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

Delight, Disregarded

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Seneca the Younger

Life, Death, Kindness

No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.

Seneca the Younger

Share, Good Things, Pleasant

Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger

Seneca the Younger

Epileptics, Precaution, Regard

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Seneca the Younger

Patience, Calm Mind, Comfort

"On Tranquility of the Mind". Seneca the Younger's letter to Serenus as translated in William Bell Langsdorf "Tranquillity of Mind and Providence", 1900.

They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.

Seneca the Younger

Light, Originality, Satellites

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

Seneca the Younger

Character, Long, Empowering

There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

Seneca the Younger

Confidence, Blessed, Blessing

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca the Younger

Time, Philosophical, Able

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Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

Seneca the Younger

Endurance, Prowess, Shows

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

Seneca the Younger

Views, Mind, Speech

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Seneca the Younger

Men, Taste, Quitting

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Everything hangs on one's thinking.

Seneca the Younger

Attitude, Thinking

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Seneca the Younger

Wise, Wisdom, Men

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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Seneca the Younger

Death, Freedom, Political