There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERUnjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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 to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGo on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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 YOUNGERThe Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER