As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGERGreatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMisfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhere fear is, happiness is not.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne hand washes the other.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER