Quote

Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

Seneca the Younger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Holding
Held
True
Love

More quotes by Seneca the Younger

Image
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
Seneca the Younger
Image
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
Seneca the Younger
Image
If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Seneca the Younger
Image
God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
Seneca the Younger
Image
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
Seneca the Younger
Image
A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
Seneca the Younger
Image
He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca the Younger
Image
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
Seneca the Younger
Image
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
Seneca the Younger
Image
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Light troubles speak the weighty are struck dumb.
Seneca the Younger
Image
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
Seneca the Younger
Image
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
Seneca the Younger