Seneca the Younger Quotes
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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Find a path or make one.
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We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
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The miserable are sacred.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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I would rather be sick than idle.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.