There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLeisure without literature is death and burial alive.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMen learn while they teach.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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 YOUNGERHe grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDesultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER