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
Display
Philosophical
Seek
Feel
Feels
Real
Good
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Seneca the Younger
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
Seneca the Younger
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man he who thinks he has found it is mad.
Seneca the Younger
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
Seneca the Younger
There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
Seneca the Younger
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
Seneca the Younger
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Seneca the Younger
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Seneca the Younger
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca the Younger
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Seneca the Younger
A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Seneca the Younger
You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
Seneca the Younger
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
Seneca the Younger
A man who has taken your time recognises no debt yet it is the one he can never repay.
Seneca the Younger
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Seneca the Younger
What you think is the summit is only a step up
Seneca the Younger
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
Seneca the Younger
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life they live badly who always begin to live.
Seneca the Younger
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
Seneca the Younger
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca the Younger
