Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDon’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGERConversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERUnjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBelieve me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
SENECA THE YOUNGERRevenge is an inhuman word.
SENECA THE YOUNGER