A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
-
-
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
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 YOUNGER -
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGER -
God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER