The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Precepts 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 YOUNGER -
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER







