black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Younger

Related Topics

Generation Humanity Passion

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
While crime is punished it yet increases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Increase Prison
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Moderation Unstable
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Adversity Fidelity Prosperity
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Death Philosophical
One hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Hand People Person Unity
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Allay Counsel Grief Light
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

Foundation Joy True Vex
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ad Death Journey Life
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Motto Nature Stoic
Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fate Guilt Guilty
Injustice never rules forever.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Forever Injustice Justice
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Steer Talk Vessel
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ignorant Life Soul

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes