47 Quotes by Seneca the Elder

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

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

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Courage leads starward, fear toward death.