Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.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 YOUNGERThe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAssociate with people who are likely to improve you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLife is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGER