black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Seneca the Younger

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Benefit Birthday Done
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ancestry Brag Descent
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Fault Impetuosity Youth
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heart Think View
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Successful Temerity Virtue
The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Relaxation Stronger
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Ask Creditor Debt Owe Pay People
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Betray Faces Guilt
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Light might People
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Active Employment Vice
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Lying Money Political
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Happiness Life Money

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Seneca the Younger Quotes