As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
You 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 YOUNGER