Seneca Quotes Flashcards
Letters 9.6 quote (Be loved)
“If you would be loved, love.”
Letters 9.10 quote (For what purpose)
“For what purpose … do I make a man my friend? … to have someone for whom I may die..”
Letters 9.11 quote (Friendship run mad)
”..the feeling of a lover has in it something akin to friendship … friendship run mad.”
Letters 35.1 quote (Love does harm)
“Friendship … is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm.”
Letters 48.2 quote (Live for your neighbour)
”..you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself.”
Letters 59.18 quote (Pleasure-lovers)
“Pleasure-lovers spend every night amid false-glittering joys, … as if it were their last.”
Letters 74.14 quote (Lust pertains not)
”.. lust pertains not to God..”
Letters 83.20 quote (Drunkenness)
“Drunkenness does not create vice, it merely brings it into view..”
Letters 85.6 quote (Any passions whatsoever)
“If … the wise man has any passions whatsoever, his reason will be no match for them..”
Letters 85.9 quote (If reason prevails)
”..if reason prevails, the passions will not even get a start..”
Letters 94.26 quote (A man does wrong)
”..a man does wrong in requiring chastity of his wife while he himself is … with the wives of other men..”
Letters 95.20 quote (Women rivalling male indulgences)
..women never lost their hair or suffered from pain in the feet; and yet nowadays they run short of hair and are afflicted with gout … in rivalling male indulgences they have also rivalled [their] ills..”
Letters 95.21 quote (Women matching men’s passions)
”..they even match the men in their passions, although they were created to feel love passively … they play the part of men.”
Letters 104.5 quote (Valued by one’s wife)
”..what is sweeter than to be so valued by one’s wife that one becomes more valuable to oneself..”
Letters 122.5 quote (Against Nature)
“All vices rebel against Nature..”
On Benefits 3.28 quote (Your immediate ancestors)
“Whether your immediate ancestors were freedmen, or slaves, or foreigners … a noble origin awaits you.”
On Benefits 3.28 quote (Slave of lust)
“You, the slave of lust, of gluttony, of a harlot … can you call anyone else a slave?”
On the Firmness of the Wise Man 1 quote (Stoics and other philosophers, men and women)
”..there is as wide a difference between the Stoics and the other sects of philosophers as there is between men and women … the one is born to command, the other to obey.”
On the Happy Life 2 quote (All savageness)
”..when we have driven away all those things … which are connected with the basest crimes, we thus gain an immense, unchangeable, equable joy … for all savageness is a sign of weakness.”
Letters 122.7 quote (Crossdressing)
”..men live contrary to Nature who exchange the fashion of their attire with women..”
