To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERStudy rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe harsh with yourself at times.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDemand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDisease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER