It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTrue joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThey lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
SENECA THE YOUNGERUnblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as you live, learn how to live.
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 YOUNGERWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur words should aim not to please, but to help.
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 YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER