Quote

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

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
Beings
Blood
Knowing
Sentient
Pleasure
Depraved
Suffering
Bond
Take
Sympathy
Life
Base
Sight

More quotes by Seneca the Younger

Image
The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Find a path or make one.
Seneca the Younger
Image
It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Seneca the Younger
Image
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca the Younger
Image
But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
Seneca the Younger
Image
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Seneca the Younger
Image
If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
Seneca the Younger
Image
No man ever became wise by chance.
Seneca the Younger
Image
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
Seneca the Younger
Image
So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
Seneca the Younger
Image
A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.
Seneca the Younger