Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
SENECA THE YOUNGER