All SENECA THE YOUNGER Quotes about “Evil”

“The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you”
“Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.”
“Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.”
“The sun shines even on the wicked.”
“Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.”
“It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.”
“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 defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”
“Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.”
“If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.”
“To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.”
“There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.”
“The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.”
“The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.”
“The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.”

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