Seneca the Younger Quotes

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.

Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with one hand the spiritual edifice which is rising by the labors of the other. But to succeed well in this, resistance should be begun while the passions are yet weak; for after they are thoroughly rooted and grown up, there is scarcely any remedy.

The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions

The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out.

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust.

I have to rein myself in sometimes.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

People who never get carried away should be.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.