Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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
Hero
Gold
Fire
Men
Adversity
Brave
Tried
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
Seneca the Younger
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
Seneca the Younger
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
Seneca the Younger
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Seneca the Younger
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Seneca the Younger
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Seneca the Younger
He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
Seneca the Younger
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
Seneca the Younger
While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Seneca the Younger
Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca the Younger
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
Seneca the Younger
The way to good conduct is never too late.
Seneca the Younger
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca the Younger
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.
Seneca the Younger
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Seneca the Younger
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Seneca the Younger
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Seneca the Younger
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Seneca the Younger
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca the Younger
Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.
Seneca the Younger
