Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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 -
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER