Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca the Younger
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Seneca the Younger
Aphorist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
Córdoba
Andalusia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
Use
Power
Great
Lightly
Philosophical
Leadership
Leader
Vision
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
Seneca the Younger
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
Seneca the Younger
No one can have all he desires.
Seneca the Younger
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Seneca the Younger
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca the Younger
It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
Seneca the Younger
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Seneca the Younger
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
Seneca the Younger
Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.
Seneca the Younger
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always to an ungrateful man only once.
Seneca the Younger
Trifling trouble find utterance deeply felt pangs are silent.
Seneca the Younger
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
Seneca the Younger
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
Seneca the Younger
The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
Seneca the Younger
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
Seneca the Younger
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Seneca the Younger
You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
Seneca the Younger
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Seneca the Younger
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
Seneca the Younger
There exists no more difficult art than living.
Seneca the Younger