Seneca the Younger Quotes

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

Why is it so difficult to love wisely, so easy to love too well?

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

I don't think there's an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don't.

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.

Practice moderation in all things except love.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

Who has never exploded in a fury does not know love either.

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are happy, we are not [rational]. In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.