Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
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
Love
Patriot
Patriotic
Patriotism
Republic
Country
Great
Men
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
Seneca the Younger
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca the Younger
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
Seneca the Younger
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
Seneca the Younger
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
Seneca the Younger
Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
Seneca the Younger
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
Seneca the Younger
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
Seneca the Younger
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
Seneca the Younger
Be harsh with yourself at times.
Seneca the Younger
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
Seneca the Younger
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
Seneca the Younger
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes and this may be done by moderate desires.
Seneca the Younger
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca the Younger
The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure if any one returns it, that is clear gain if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
Seneca the Younger
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
Seneca the Younger
The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
Seneca the Younger
What you think is the summit is only a step up
Seneca the Younger
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
Seneca the Younger
If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity.
Seneca the Younger
