No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThis body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt 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 YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGER