Seneca the Younger famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.
-- Seneca the Younger

#History #Matter #World
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Alcohol #Madness #Drunkenness
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Philosophical #Wish #Relief
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
-- Seneca the Younger

#Inspirational #Success #Dare
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Body #Should
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Danger #Exposure #Constant
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Courage #Men #Bears
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 die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)
-- Seneca the Younger

#Death #Philosopher
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Stars #History #Earth
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Sweet #Memories #Bears
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Birthday #Lasts #Eternity
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
-- Seneca the Younger
Greed's worst point is its ingratitude.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Greed #Worst #Ingratitude
Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
-- Seneca the Younger

#States #Security #Instability
...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Men #Bravery #Admirable
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Misery #Kind #Spiteful
A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Countenance
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Competition #Rooms
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Courage #Slavery
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Disease #Break
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Death
Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Death #Sorrow #Debt
The profit on a good action is to have done it.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Deeds #Done #Action
Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Vices #Drunkenness
Apples taste sweetest when they're going.
-- Seneca the Younger

#Apples #Taste #Decline

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