Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA thousand approaches lie open to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow 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 YOUNGERTo live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER