That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGER