Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
SENECA THE YOUNGERA large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe part of life which we really live is short.
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 YOUNGEREverything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe young man must store up, the old man must use.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe 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 YOUNGERThis body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGER