Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLight is that grief which counsel can allay.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER