Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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 -
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
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 -
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER