Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERUnblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as you live, learn how to live.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe expression of truth is simplicity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMisfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAfter death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGER