For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIts harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe sun shines even on the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFour things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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