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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.”
“When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.”
“Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?”
“No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.”
“To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.”
“To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.”
“Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.”
“Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.”
“He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.”
“When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.”
“If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.”
“How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!”
“Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.”
“Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.”
“Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.”
“The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.”
“Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.”
“Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.”