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Whole Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering…
- What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
- I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
- Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it…
- 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…
- We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that…
- When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come…
- The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
- Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to…
- We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur
- Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we…
- God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
- It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn…
- War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and…
- The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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