Persons Quotes by Seneca the Younger

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

— Seneca the Younger

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

— Seneca the Younger

The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.

— Seneca the Younger

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

— Seneca the Younger

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

— Seneca the Younger

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of…

— Seneca the Younger

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only…

— Seneca the Younger

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and…

— Seneca the Younger

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge…

— Seneca the Younger

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

— Seneca the Younger

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

— Seneca the Younger

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but…

— Seneca the Younger

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is…

— Seneca the Younger

Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit…

— Seneca the Younger

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die…

— Seneca the Younger

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each…

— Seneca the Younger

We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than…

— 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

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature…

— Seneca the Younger