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 YOUNGERIn 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 YOUNGERWhat madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe part of life which we really live is short.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMay be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
SENECA THE YOUNGER