One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die. Seneca the Younger More Quotes by Seneca the Younger More Quotes From Seneca the Younger It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know. Seneca the Younger never-too-late late too-late There is no genius without a mixture of madness. Seneca the Younger mixtures madness genius We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her. Seneca the Younger ifs fortune He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato. Seneca the Younger plato mean son The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution. Seneca the Younger resolution greatness men We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us. Seneca the Younger different men life The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy. Seneca the Younger ascent earth heaven Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . . Seneca the Younger brother spirit made I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad. Seneca the Younger equal Speech is the mirror of the mind. Seneca the Younger speech mirrors mind Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever. Seneca the Younger fate wish men It is well to be born either a king or a fool. Seneca the Younger fool born kings Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers. Seneca the Younger cost prayer In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work. Seneca the Younger void turns god To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none Seneca the Younger inhuman forgiveness forgiving To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand Seneca the Younger sailing sweat hands Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked. Seneca the Younger equal wicked demand It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power. Seneca the Younger mankind should fortune Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life. Seneca the Younger evil memories past Full of men, vacant of friends. Seneca the Younger vacant men
