Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Seneca the Younger

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• Soul
• Happiness
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• Sensuality

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• If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Happiness