Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGERHuman society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERUnjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBut when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER