He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER