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 YOUNGERWe 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 YOUNGERThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMisfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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 YOUNGERThere is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGERRevenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath 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 YOUNGERThe wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERCourage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER