black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Seneca the Younger

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fault Impetuosity Youth
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Admire Guide Speak
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Prudence Punish
The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspirational Mind Peace
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Home Life Short Spiritual
Set 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 YOUNGER

Dresses Fear Number
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessing Death Mean
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Liberal Philosophical Trust
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Thing Well
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Example Luxury Mischief People
It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Shortness Waste
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Numbers Peril Slavery

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Seneca the Younger Quotes