Epistles 66-92 Quotes

“For all other things, which arouse our desires, depress the soul and weaken it, and when we think that they are uplifting the soul, they are merely puffing it up and cheating it with much emptiness. Therefore, that alone is good which will make the soul better.”
― Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Vol. 2

“The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction.”
― Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Vol. 2

“If an evil has been pondered beforehand, the blow is gentle when it comes.”
― Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Vol. 2

“no man, if he be ungrateful, will be unhappy in the future. I allow him no day of grace; he is unhappy forthwith.”
― Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Vol. 2

“I will keep a watch on myself straightway and—the most useful step—review my day. The fact that we do not look back over our lives makes us worse. We ponder—though rarely—what we are to do, but we do not ponder at all what we have done—and yet planning for the future depends on the past.”
― Seneca, Epistles 66-92

“Wisdom will bring the conviction that there is but one good – that which is honourable; that this can neither be shortened nor extended, any more than a carpenter’s rule, with which straight lines are tested, can be bent. Any change in the rule means spoiling the straight line.”
― Seneca, Epistles 66-92

“Pero que emocionen los pensamientos, no las frases; la elocuencia es un veneno cuando es ella y no la verdad lo que apasiona.”
― Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. Liber II / Briefe an Lucilius über Ethik. 2. Buch