There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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 YOUNGERDeath is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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 YOUNGERAll art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAuditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER