Men Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

— Seneca the Younger

Men practice war; beasts do not.

— Seneca the Younger

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

— Seneca the Younger

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

— Seneca the Younger

Full of men, vacant of friends.

— Seneca the Younger

Man is a social animal.

— Seneca the Younger

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

— Seneca the Younger

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

— Seneca the Younger

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.

— Seneca the Younger

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

— Seneca the Younger

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

— Seneca the Younger

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

— Seneca the Younger

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

— Seneca the Younger

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

— Seneca the Younger

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

— Seneca the Younger

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

— Seneca the Younger

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties?…

— Seneca the Younger

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

— Seneca the Younger

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

— Seneca the Younger

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

— Seneca the Younger

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him…

— Seneca the Younger

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived…

— Seneca the Younger

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

— 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…

— Seneca the Younger

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs,…

— Seneca the Younger

A man who examines the saddle and bridle and not the animal itself when he is out to buy a horse is…

— Seneca the Younger

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those…

— Seneca the Younger

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He…

— Seneca the Younger

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so…

— Seneca the Younger

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of…

— Seneca the Younger

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man…

— Seneca the Younger

No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to…

— Seneca the Younger

...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a…

— Seneca the Younger

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why…

— Seneca the Younger

It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with…

— Seneca the Younger

No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make…

— Seneca the Younger

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our…

— Seneca the Younger

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips…

— Seneca the Younger

There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who…

— Seneca the Younger

In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of…

— Seneca the Younger