I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROn him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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 YOUNGERDisease is not of the body but of the place.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAfter death there is nothing.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER