Seneca the Younger

A thousand approaches lie open to death.

Seneca the Younger

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

Seneca the Younger

An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

Seneca the Younger

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

Seneca the Younger

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Seneca the Younger

Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Seneca the Younger

Anyone who likes may make things easier for himself by viewing them with equanimity.

Seneca the Younger

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Seneca the Younger

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man’s life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.

Seneca the Younger

As often as I have been amongst men, I have returned less a man.

Seneca the Younger