That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER