Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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 -
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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 -
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
SENECA THE YOUNGER