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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.”
“Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.”
“It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.”
“Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.”
“What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?”
“There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.”
“What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.”
“Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.”
“Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.”
“An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.”
“Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.”
“It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.”
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”