black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

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

Anger Blow Thinking
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anxiety Leisure Praying
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Our Please Word
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

Affection Coal Squares
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Bles Life Live Well
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Addiction Life Positive Thinking
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Deceit Dishonorable Think Write
We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Air Breath Deep Spirit
His head was turned by too great success.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Great Success Success
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Congratulations Success Think
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Pause Proof Wise
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion History People Person
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Seneca the Younger Quotes