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 YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGER