Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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
Seek
Feel
Feels
Real
Good
Display
Philosophical
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
Seneca the Younger
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Seneca the Younger
The expression of truth is simplicity.
Seneca the Younger
The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
Seneca the Younger
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca the Younger
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Seneca the Younger
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Seneca the Younger
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca the Younger
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Seneca the Younger
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
Seneca the Younger
There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
Seneca the Younger
He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
Seneca the Younger
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
Seneca the Younger
Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
Seneca the Younger
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
Seneca the Younger
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
Seneca the Younger
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
Seneca the Younger
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
Seneca the Younger
Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
Seneca the Younger
Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
Seneca the Younger
