Revenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERRevenge is an inhuman word.
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 YOUNGERWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe 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 YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReligion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDisease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
SENECA THE YOUNGER