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Our Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
- Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
- Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
- I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it…
- Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us…
- Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in…
- It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp,…
- The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our…
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