Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Be 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 -
No crime has been without a precedent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Be harsh with yourself at times.
SENECA THE YOUNGER







