Who-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 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 YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGERHesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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 YOUNGERA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERUnblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER