Seneca Quotes - Page 3

Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring.

Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.

Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but
we have been a long time on the way.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves