Seneca the Younger Quotes About Soul

• To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Soul, Ignorant

• As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mother, Soul, Looks

• If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Men, Soul

• In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Lying, Philosophy

• There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Soul And Body, Long

• Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Real, Heart, Long

• It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

  Seneca the Younger

  Struggle, Fate, Destiny

• Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Educational, Soul, Words Of Wisdom

• You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Soul, Climate

• 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 geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in order to have enough....You geometers can calculate the area of circles, can reduce any given shape to a square, can state the distances separating starts. Nothing's outside your scope when it comes to measurement. Well, if you're such an expert, measure a man's soul; tell me how large or how small that is. You can define a straight line; what use is that to you if you've no idea what straightness means in life?

  Seneca the Younger

  Distance, Teaching, Mean

• A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Soul, Sound

• Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Health

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• The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Soul, Delight, Divinity

• Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.

  Seneca the Younger

  Good Life, Long, Soul

• War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

  Seneca the Younger

  Mother, Sweet, War

• 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

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