What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBelieve me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe world itself is too small for the covetous.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA THE YOUNGER