Seneca the Younger Quotes About Heaven

• Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Fear, Heaven

• Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.

  Seneca the Younger

  Brother, Lying, Light

• The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Heaven, Noble

• Home joys are blessed of heaven.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blessed, Home, Joy

• The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.

  Seneca the Younger

  Taken, Heaven, Soul

• The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Heaven, Good Man

• The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Heaven, Earth, Ascent

  "Hercules Furens (The Mad Hercules)". Book by Seneca the Younger (line CCCCXXXVII), 1st century AD.

• A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blessing, Heaven, Mind

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